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Partial Comfort by Dorothy Parker
Whose love is given over-well
Shall look on Helen’s face in hell,
Whilst those whose love is thin..
Prophetic Soul by Dorothy Parker
Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again;..
Prologue to a Saga by Dorothy Parker
Maidens, gather not the yew,
Leave the glossy myrtle sleeping;
Any lad was born untrue,
Never a o..
Prisoner by Dorothy Parker
Long I fought the driving lists,
Plume a-stream and armor clanging;
Link on link, between my wrist..
Prayer For A Prayer by Dorothy Parker
Dearest one, when I am dead
Never seek to follow me.
Never mount the quiet hill
Where the copper..
Pour Prendre Conge by Dorothy Parker
I’m sick of embarking in dories
Upon an emotional sea.
I’m wearied of playing Dolores
(A role nev..
Post-Graduate by Dorothy Parker
Hope it was that tutored me,
And Love that taught me more;
And now I learn at Sorrow’s knee
The s..
Portrait of the Artist by Dorothy Parker
Oh, lead me to a quiet cell
Where never footfall rankles,
And bar the window passing well,
And gy..
Plea by Dorothy Parker
Secrets, you said, would hold us two apart;
You’d have me know of you your least transgression,
An..
Philosophy by Dorothy Parker
If I should labor through daylight and dark,
Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the worl..
Paths by Dorothy Parker
I shall tread, another year,
Ways I walked with Grief,
Past the dry, ungarnered ear
And the britt..
Parable For A Certain Virgin by Dorothy Parker
Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine;
Refresh your recollection,
And sit a moment, to define
His mea..
Polarity by Claude McKay
Nay, why reproach each other, be unkind,
For there’s no plane on which we two may meet?
Let’s bo..
Poetry by Claude McKay
Sometimes I tremble like a storm-swept flower,
And seek to hide my tortured soul from thee.
Bowi..
Prayer In Bad Weather by Charles Bukowski
by God, I don’t know what to
do.
they’re so nice to have around.
they have a way of playing with
..
Pull A String, A Puppet Moves by Charles Bukowski
each man must realize
that it can all disappear very
quickly:
the cat, the woman, the job,
the..
Poetry by Charles Bukowski
it
takes
a lot of
desperation
dissatisfaction
and
disillusion
to
write
a
few
good..
Poem For My 43rd Birthday by Charles Bukowski
To end up alone
in a tomb of a room
without cigarettes
or wine--
just a lightbulb
and a potbell..
Prayers of Steel by Carl Sandburg
LAY me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let..
Pods by Carl Sandburg
PEA pods cling to stems.
Neponset, the village,
Clings to the Burlington railway main line.
Terri..
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