Incurable
And if my heart be scarred and burned, / The safer, I, for all I learned;
Requiescat
❦
Tonight my love is sleeping cold
Where none may see and none shall pass.
The daisies quicken in the mold,
And richer fares the meadow grass.
The warding cypress pleads the skies,
The mound goes level in the rain.
My love all cold and silent lies-
Pray God it will not rise again!
More poems by Dorothy Parker
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom
Daily dawns another day; / I must up, to make my way.
Finis
Now it's over, and now it's done; / Why does everything look the same?
After Spanish Proverb
Oh, mercifullest one of all, / Oh, generous as dear,