Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
(22 August 1893 - 7 June 1967 / Long Branch / New Jersey)
Poems by Dorothy Parker : 75 / 193
Little Words - Poem by Dorothy Parker
When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf,
Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds;
And I can only stare, and shape my grief
In little words.
I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown
The bitter woe that racks my cords apart.
The weary pen that sets my sorrow down
Feeds at my heart.
There is no mercy in the shifting year,
No beauty wraps me tenderly about.
I turn to little words- so you, my dear,
Can spell them out.
Poems by Dorothy Parker : 75 / 193
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Poem Submitted: Friday, January 3, 2003
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