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August - Poem by Dorothy Parker

When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;

Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces' pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by.


Comments about August by Dorothy Parker

  • Silver Star - 4,135 Points Queeny Gona (9/6/2013 5:41:00 AM)

    Amazing write.Beautiful imagery. (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Michael Lasalle (7/19/2012 4:09:00 PM)

    The imagery is a beautiful realm where the words cast an open meadow of wild flowers rolling as far as
    the eyes can see, the sense of youth and eternity are entwined into one concept. What is time to a physical existence? And how do we control it? The mindset is a masterful play of pastel color and a depth that
    reaches new understanding. (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Jessica Hughes (3/26/2011 3:47:00 PM)

    vivid contrast, the beginning and ending of youth (Report) Reply

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Poems About August

  1. 1. August , Dorothy Parker
  2. 2. August 8th , Anne Sexton
  3. 3. August 17th , Anne Sexton
  4. 4. August 1914 , Isaac Rosenberg
  5. 5. Dark August , Derek Walcott
  6. 6. A Call For August , Sandra Fowler
  7. 7. An August Midnight , Thomas Hardy
  8. 8. A Calendar Of Sonnets: August , Helen Hunt Jackson
  9. 9. California Hills In August , Dana Gioia
  10. 10. August , Boris Pasternak
  11. 11. August Moonrise , Sara Teasdale
  12. 12. August , Hans Christian Andersen
  13. 13. ' [ Late August ] ' , Ency Bearis
  14. 14. Remorse. (From August Von Platen) , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  15. 15. [month Of] August , Hilaire Belloc
  16. 16. ***********on August 21,2008 , Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca ..
  17. 17. Composed By The Sea-Side, Near Calais, A.. , William Wordsworth
  18. 18. Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leadin.. , William Wordsworth
  19. 19. Calais, August 1802 , William Wordsworth
  20. 20. Calais, August 15, 1802 , William Wordsworth
  21. 21. August Leading... , Theodora (Theo) Onken
  22. 22. The Shepherd's Calendar - August , John Clare
  23. 23. In August , Paul Laurence Dunbar
  24. 24. August Moon , Emma Lazarus
  25. 25. August Moon , Bonnie Collins
  26. 26. August , Algernon Charles Swinburne
  27. 27. August , Elinor Morton Wylie
  28. 28. *809 Peridot Birthstone Of August , John Knight
  29. 29. August 1968 , WH Auden
  30. 30. (be Strong Now) My Night With Her In Au.. , Justin Gildow
  31. 31. ! Song Of August! , Rema Prasanaa
  32. 32. Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 I.. , William Wordsworth
  33. 33. A Book Of Strife In The Form Of The Diar.. , George MacDonald
  34. 34. Lines Written In August , Thomas Babbington Macaulay
  35. 35. Grant At Rest-- August 8, 1885 , James Whitcomb Riley
  36. 36. Two In August , John Crowe Ransom
  37. 37. August Hands , Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel ..
  38. 38. The Shepheardes Calender: August , Edmund Spenser
  39. 39. August , Edith Nesbit
  40. 40. Last August Hours Before The Year 2000 , Naomi Shihab Nye
  41. 41. August , James Whitcomb Riley
  42. 42. Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, .. , Kenneth Rexroth
  43. 43. 15th August,1998 In India , Dr. A.Celestine Raj Manohar ..
  44. 44. I Am Sorry Pakistan On 14th August, Inde.. , Shamin Bashir Shah
  45. 45. August , Viggo Stuckenberg
  46. 46. Mid-August , Duncan Campbell Scott
  47. 47. August Tidings , Usha Pisharody
  48. 48. It Was August I Remember, I Remember Whe.. , Sean Joyce
  49. 49. In August , Katharine Lee Bates
  50. 50. August Is The Dying Month , Wanda Swim Strunk

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