Home » American Poets » Dorothy Parker

Prophetic Soul

by Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

Because your eyes are slant and slow,
Because your hair is sweet to touch,
My heart is high again; but oh,
I doubt if this will get me much.




Quotes of the Day

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
• Mark Twain


Poems of the Day
    William Carlos Williams

    Hic Jacet
    The coroner's merry little children Have such twinkling brown eyes. Their father is not of gay men And their mother jocular in no wise, Yet the ...