Dorothy Parker

1893-1967 / Female / American
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Accursed from birth they beWho seek to find monogamy, / Pursuing it from bed to bed-- / I think they would be better dead."
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A Certain LadyOh, I can smile for you, and tilt my head, / And drink your rushing words with eager lips, / And paint my mouth for you a fragrant red,
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A Dream Lies DeadA dream lies dead here. May you softly go / Before this place, and turn away your eyes, / Nor seek to know the look of that which dies
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A Fairly Sad TaleI think that I shall never know / Why I am thus, and I am so. / Around me, other girls inspire
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AfternoonWhen I am old, and comforted, / And done with this desire, / With Memory to share my bed
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After Spanish ProverbOh, mercifullest one of all, / Oh, generous as dear, / None lived so lowly, none so small,
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Alexandre Dumas And His SonAlthough I work, and seldom cease, / At Dumas pere and Dumas fils, / Alas, I cannot make me care
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Alfred, Lord TennysonShould Heaven send me any son, / I hope he's not like Tennyson. / I'd rather have him play a fiddle
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AnecdoteSo silent I when Love was by / He yawned, and turned away; / But Sorrow clings to my apron-strings,
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A Pig's-Eye View Of LiteratureThe Lives and Times of John Keats, / Percy Bysshe Shelley, and / George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
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