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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live A Portrait by Dorothy Parker Because my love is quick to come and go- A little here, and then a little there- What use are any words of mine to swear My heart is stubborn, and my spirit slow Of weathering the drip and drive of woe? What is my oath, when you have but to bare My little, easy loves; and I can dare Only to shrug, and answer, "They are so"? You do not know how heavy a heart it is That hangs about my neck- a clumsy stone Cut with a birth, a death, a bridal-day. Each time I love, I find it still my own, Who take it, now to that lad, now to this, Seeking to give the wretched thing away. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Dorothy Parker Afternoon After Spanish Proverb Alexandre Dumas And His Son Alfred Lord Tennyson Anecdote August Autobiography Autumn Valentine A Certain Lady A Dream Lies Dead A Fairly Sad Tale A Pigs-Eye View Of Literature A Portrait A Very Short Song A Well-Worn Story Ballade At Thirty-Five Ballade Of A Great Weariness Ballade Of A Talked-Off Ear Ballade Of Unfortunate Mammals Bohemia Braggart Bric-A-Brac But Not Forgotten Chant For Dark Hours Charles Dickens Cherry White Coda Comment Condolence Convalescent Daylight Saving De Profundis DGRossetti Dilemma Distance Epitaph Epitaph For A Darling Lady Experience Fable Fair Weather Faute De Mieux Fighting Words Finis For An Unknown Lady For A Favorite Granddaughter For A Lady Who Must Write Verse For A Sad Lady From A Letter From Lesbia Frustration Fulfillment Garden-Spot General Review Of The Sex Situation George Gissing George Sand Godmother Godspeed Guinevere At Her Fireside Harriet Beecher Stowe Healed Hearthside Incurable Indian Summer Inscription For The Ceiling Of A Be Interior Interview Inventory Iseult Of Brittany I Know I Have Been Happiest I Shall Come Back Landscape Liebestod Light Of Love Lines On Reading Too Many Poets Little Words Love Song Lullaby Men Midnight Mortal Enemy My Own Neither Bloody Nor Bowed News Item Ninon De Lenclos On Her Last Birthd Nocturne Now At Liberty Observation Of A Woman Dead Young One Perfect Rose On Being A Woman On Cheating The Fiddler Ornithology For Beginners Oscar Wilde Parable For A Certain Virgin Partial Comfort Paths Pattern Penelope Philosophy Plea Portrait Of The Artist Post-Graduate Pour Prendre Conge Prayer For A New Mother Prayer For A Prayer Prisoner Prologue To A Saga Prophetic Soul Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song Rainy Night Reacutesumeacute Recurrence Renunciation Requiescat Reubens Children Rhyme Against Living Rondeau Redoubleacute Roundel Salomes Dancing-Lesson Sanctuary Second Love Sight Social Note Solace Somebodys Song Song In A Minor Key Song Of One Of The Girls Song Of Perfect Propriety Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence Sonnet On An Alpine Night Star Light Star Bright-- Story Story of Mrs W- Summary Superfluous Advice Surprise Sweet Violets Symptom Recital Temps Perdu Testament Theory There Was One They Part The Apple Tree The Burned Child The Choice The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse The Dark Girls Rhyme The Dramatists The Evening Primrose The False Friends The Flaw In Paganism The Gentlest Lady The Homebody The Immortals The Ladys Reward The Last Question The Leal The Little Old Lady In Lavender Sil The Maid-Servant At The Inn The New Love The Red Dress The Satin Dress The Sea The Searched Soul The Second Oldest Story The Small Hours The Thin Edge The Trifler The Trusting Heart The Veteran The Whistling Girl The White Lady The Willow Thomas Carlyle Thought For A Sunshiny Morning Threnody Tombstones In The Starlight To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady To Newcastle Transition Two-Volume Novel Ultimatum Unfortunate Coincidence Verse For A Certain Dog Vers Demode Victoria Wail Walter Savage Landor Wisdom Words Of Comfort To Be Scratched On

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D.H. Lawrence	Dame Edith Sitwell	Dante Alighieri
David Berman	David Ignatow	David Lehman
Delmore Schwartz	Denise Levertov	Derek Walcott
Diane Wakoski	Don Patterson	Donald Hall
Donald Justice	Dorothy Parker	Dylan Thomas

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