Potential Titles: Dorothy Parker

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Mask the gentle sky - Dorothy Parker "Absence"

Sorrow clings to my apron-strings - Dorothy Parker "Anecdote"

Light your tinsel moon - Dorothy Parker "August"

Headlong through your paper sky - Dorothy Parker "August"

Daubed with ashes of myriad Lents - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"

Wearing shower bouquets of rue - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"

Through God's acre of memory - Dorothy Parker "Ballade at Thirty-Five"

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"

Scratch a lover, and find a foe - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of a Great Weariness"

The orioles sang in chorus - Dorothy Parker "Ballade of Big Plans"

A glittering jewel in virtue's crown - Dorothy Parker "Biographies"

Safe in hell - Dorothy Parker "Braggart"

And drink your rushing words with eager lips - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

The thousand little deaths my heart has died - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

To sing me sagas of your late delights - Dorothy Parker "A Certain Lady"

Black as pain - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"

Charming the air - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"

In their writhing petals - Dorothy Parker "Christmas, 1921"

Them without a name - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl's rhyme"

Folk of mud and flame - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl's rhyme"

Devil-gotten sinners - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl's rhyme"

Anger ran between us - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl's rhyme"

Living for a hating - Dorothy Parker "The dark girl's rhyme"

Dared not look on the new moon's cup - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"

Dared not look on the sweet young rain - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"

Spoke worn words to hallow my sleep - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph"

All her hours were yellow sands - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph for a Darling Lady"

Tumble in a rainbow clutter - Dorothy Parker "Epitaph for a Darling Lady"

And time could dim a vow - Dorothy Parker "The False Friends"

I never said they feed my heart - Dorothy Parker "Faut de Mieux"

Travel, trouble, music, art - Dorothy Parker "Faut de Mieux"

The devil touched my tongue - Dorothy Parker "Fighting Words"

Fling it to a whistling lad - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

Veil away your tender eyes - Dorothy Parker "For an Unknown Lady"

Where older waters swell - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

That flowered at Sappho's tread - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Winds that sighed in Homer's strings - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Golden with the dust of wings - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Ancient scars of trench and tomb - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Where the bones of poets bloom - Dorothy Parker "Hearthside"

Make you songs of hearts denied - Dorothy Parker "I Know I Have Been Happiest"

Of wailing wind and graveyard panoply - Dorothy Parker "I Shall Come Back"

If my heart be scarred and burned - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"

That ways of love are never new - Dorothy Parker "Incurable"

Their candle gives a single light - Dorothy Parker "Interview"

Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"

Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt - Dorothy Parker "Inventory"

Every foe is faithful till I die - Dorothy Parker "The Leal"

Joy stayed with me a night - Dorothy Parker "Light of Love"

Ring sweet as a chime of gold - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"

Jubilant as a flag unfurled - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"

As the fragrance of acacia - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"

Runs by like a day in June - Dorothy Parker "Love Song"

Starlight bespangles the way of your dreams - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"

So in midnight does happiness capture us - Dorothy Parker "Lullaby"

Alter all that they admired - Dorothy Parker "Men"

Science, art, and parlor games - Dorothy Parker "Neither Bloody Nor Bowed"

Cover with ashes our love's cold crater - Dorothy Parker "Nocturne"

My days are gray with yearning - Dorothy Parker "Now at Liberty"

Guess the number of seeds in a cucumber - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"

Thread a needle against time - Dorothy Parker "Parties: A Hymn of Hate"

The scenes our dreams have painted - Dorothy Parker "The Passionate Freudian to His Love"

Walked with grief - Dorothy Parker "Paths"

Weathering the drip and drive of woe - Dorothy Parker "A Portrait"

Wrap my eyes with linen fair - Dorothy Parker "Portrait of the Artist"

Ghosts of all my lovely sins - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

Robes of sorrow - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

Sister to the rain - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

Remembered slowly - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

Dear temptations - Dorothy Parker "Rainy night"

Petulant at the windowpane - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"

Fey and sudden and unholy - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"

Every fragile thing shall rust - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"

Roam with young Persephone - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"

Plucking poppies for your slumber - Dorothy Parker "Rainy Night"

Scan the renovated skies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"

Sweetly tint the paling lies - Dorothy Parker "Recurrence"

Shaped as other men - Dorothy Parker "Salome’s Dancing-Lesson"

Could ease a heart like a satin gown - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Wantons go in bright brocades - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Satin's for the free - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Wool's to line a miser's chest - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Velvet hides an empty breast - Dorothy Parker "The Satin Dress"

Shattered beauty hung - Dorothy Parker "Solace"

Thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's song"

Lovers' oaths are thin as rain - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's Song"

Never done - Dorothy Parker "Somebody's song"

At whose beckoning history shook - Dorothy Parker "Song of One of the Girls"

To view the reeling years - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"

And give my smiles for sighs - Dorothy Parker "Song of Perfect Propriety"

The knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W----"

Safe from August night - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"

Cannot feel the knife of spring - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"

Before the curtsying hollyhocks - Dorothy Parker "Story of Mrs. W--"

Dread the dawn's recurrent light - Dorothy Parker "Symptom Recital"

Watched the book of day unfold - Dorothy Parker "Testament"

Lilacs blossom just as sweet - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"

Arms held out to darkness - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"

Bind my brow with willow - Dorothy Parker "Threnody"

If your dreams were thread to weave - Dorothy Parker "To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady"

Go and curse your star - Dorothy Parker "To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady"

Had dressed me in silk to meet him - Dorothy Parker "The Trifler"

Of all the thunderous ages - Dorothy Parker "Verse for a Certain Dog"

Moves in the mist of a mutual dream - Dorothy Parker "Verse Reporting Late Arrival at a Conclusion"

Broke my brittle heart in two - Dorothy Parker "A Very Short Song"

Inertia rides and riddles me - Dorothy Parker "The Veteran"

All my pretty hates are dead - Dorothy Parker "Wail"

To follow a thread of song - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"

Looking on cruel lands - Dorothy Parker "A Well-Worn Story"

Sappho's restriction was only the sky - Dorothy Parker "Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror"


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