Edward

Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
Chronology
A Note on the Text

Enough Rope (1926)
--Threnody
--The Small Hours
--The False Friends
--The Trifler
--A Very Short Song
--A Well-Worn Story
--Convalescent
--The Dark Girl's Rhyme
--Epitaph
--Light of Love
--Wail
--The Satin Dress
--Somebody's Song
--Anecdote
--Braggart
--Epitaph for a Darling Lady
--To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady
--Paths
--Hearthside
--The New Love
--Rainy Night
--For a Sad Lady
--Recurrence
--Story of Mrs. W----
--The Dramatists
--August
--The White Lady
--I Know I Have Been Happiest
--Testament
--"I Shall Come Back"
--Condolence
--The Immortals
--A Portrait
--Portrait of the Artist
--Chant for Dark Hours
--Unfortunate Coincidence
--Verse Reporting Late Arrival at a Conclusion
--Inventory
--Now at Liberty
--Comment
--Plea
--Pattern
--De Profundis
--They Part
--Ballade of a Great Weariness
--Résumé
--Renunciation
--Day-Dreams
--The Veteran
--Prophetic Soul
--Verse for a Certain Dog
--Folk Tune
--Godspeed
--Song of Perfect Propriety
--Social Note
--One Perfect Rose
--Ballade at Thirty-Five
--The Thin Edge
--Spring Song
--Love Song
--Indian Summer
--Philosophy
--For an Unknown Lady
--The Leal
--Finis
--Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror
--Men
--News Item
--Song of One of the Girls
--Lullaby
--Faut de Mieux
--Roundel
--A Certain Lady
--Observation
--Symptom Recital
--Rondeau Redoublé
--Autobiography
--The Choice
--Ballade of Big Plans
--General Review of the Sex Situation
--Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom
--Pictures in the Smoke
--Biographies
--Nocturne
--Interview
--Song in a Minor Key
--Experience
--Neither Bloody nor Bowed
--The Burned Child
--Fighting Words

Sunset Gun (1928)
--Godmother
--Partial Comfort
--The Red Dress
--Victoria
--The Counsellor
--Parable for a Certain Virgin
--Bric-à-Brac
--Interior
--Reuben's Children
--For R. C. B.
--There Was One
--On Cheating the Fiddler
--Incurable
--Fable
--The Second Oldest Story

--A Pig's-Eye View of Literature: The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron
--Oscar Wilde
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
--D. G. Rossetti
--Thomas Carlyle
--Charles Dickens
--Alexandre Dumas and His Son
--Alfred Lord Tennyson
--George Gissing
--Walter Savage Landor
--George Sand

--Mortal Enemy
--Penelope
--Bohemia
--The Searched Soul
--The Trusting Heart
--Thought for a Sunshiny Morning
--The Gentlest Lady
--The Maid-Servant at the Inn
--Fulfilment
--Daylight Saving
--Surprise
--Swan Song
--On Being a Woman
--Afternoon
--A Dream Lies Dead
--The Homebody
--Second Love
--Fair Weather
--The Whistling Girl
--Story
--Frustration
--Healed
--Landscape
--Post-Graduate

--Verses in the Night: Honeymoon
--Triolet
--Mélange for the Unknown George

--Liebestod
--For a Favorite Grand-Daughter
--Dilemma
--Theory
--A Fairly Sad Tale
--The Last Question
--Superfluous Advice
--Directions for Finding the Bard
--But Not Forgotten
--Two-Volume Novel
--Pour Prendre Congé
--For a Lady Who Must Write Verse
--Rhyme Against Living
--Wisdom
--Coda

Death and Taxes (1931)
--Prayer for a Prayer
--After a Spanish Proverb
--The Flaw in Paganism
--The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse
--Distance
--The Evening Primrose
--Sanctuary
--Cherry White
--Salomé's Dancing-Lesson
--My Own
--Solace
--Little Words
--Ornithology for Beginners

--Tombstone in the Starlight: I. The Minor Poet
--II. The Pretty Lady
--III. The Very Rich Man
--IV. The Fisherwoman
--V. The Crusader
--VI. The Actress

--The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk
--Garden-Spot
--Vers Démodé
--Sonnet for the End of a Sequence
--In the Meadow
--The Apple Tree
--Iseult of Brittany
--"Star Light, Star Bright---"
--The Sea
--Guinevere at Her Fireside
--Transition
--Lines on Reading Too Many Poets
--Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals
--From a Letter from Lesbia
--Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song
--Prayer for a New Mother
--Midnight
--Ninon de L'Enclos, on Her Last Birthday
--Ultimatum
--Of a Woman, Dead Young
--The Willow
--Ballade of a Talked-Off Ear
--Sonnet on an Alpine Night
--Requiescat
--Sweet Violets
--Prologue to a Saga
--Summary

Not So Deep As A Well (1936)
--Sight
--The Lady's Reward
--Prisoner
--Temps Perdu
--Autumn Valentine

The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944)
--War Song
--Higgledy Piggledy, My White Hen

Poems Uncollected by Parker
--Any Porch
--The Bridge Fiend
--A Musical Comedy Thought
--Women: A Hate Song
--The Gunmen and the Débutante
--The Lady in Back
--Men: A Hate Song
--Actresses: A Hate Song
--Relatives: A Hate Song
--Slackers: A Hate Song
--Bohemians: A Hate Song

--Oh, Look---I Can Do It, Too: Bacchanale
--Sunday
--The Picture Gallery
--Fragment

--Our Office: A Hate Song: An Intimate Glimpse of Vanity Fair---En Famille
--Actors: A Hate Song
--Letter to Robert Benchley: Roughing It in the Country at The Birches, Maine
--Our Own Home Talent
--Hymn of Hate: Bores
--With Best Wishes
--Invictus
--Song of the Open Country
--The Passionate Freudian to His Love
--Hymn of Hate: The Drama
--Hymn of Hate: Parties
--Love Song
--Idyl
--Hymn of Hate: Movies
--To My Dog
--Absence
--Lyric
--Song for the First of the Month
--Fulfilment
--Lynn Fontanne
--To Marjorie Rambeau
--Christmas, 1921
--Marilyn Miller
--Hymn of Hate: Books
--Fragment

--Figures in Popular Literature: The Sheik
--The Flapper

--Chantey
--Moral Tales for the Young (I)

--Life's Valentines: Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles
--Mr. David Wark Griffith
--Mr. David Belasco
--Mr. Calvin Coolidge
--Dr. Frank Crane
--Mr. Avery Hopwood
--Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld
--Mr. John Wanamaker

--The Far-Sighted Muse
--Figures in Popular Literature: The Drab Heroine
--Paging Saint Patrick
--Mood
--Triolets
--Figures in Popular Literature: The Western Hero
--Hymn of Hate: The Younger Set
--To Myrtilla, on Easter Day

--Figures in Popular Literature: The Glad Girl
--The Boy Savant

--Moral Tales for the Young (II)
--Poem in the American Manner
--Thoughts
--Fantasy
--Men I'm Not Married To
--Woodland Song
--Rondeau (I)
--Figures in Popular Literature: The Great Lover
--Rosemary (I)
--Song (I)
--Hymn of Hate: Summer Resorts
--Grandfather Said It
--Monody
--Hymn of Hate: Reformers
--Somewhat Delayed Spring Song
--Sonnet (I)
--To a Lady
--Memories
--Promise
--Rondeau (II)
--Song of the Conventions
--Song (II)
--Ballade of Understandable Ambitions
--"How Bold It Is"
--Song of a Contented Heart
--Song of the Wilderness
--Triolet (I)
--Wanderlust
--A Triolet
--Hymn of Hate: Wives
--Paean
--Song (III)
--And Oblige
--Triolet (II)
--Ballade of a Not Insupportable Loss
--Hymn of Hate: Husbands
--Song of a Hopeful Heart
--Song (IV)
--Song for an April Dusk
--Rosemary (II)
--Ballade of a Complete Flop
--Standardized Song-Sheet for Get-Together Meetings
--Folk Song
--Hymn of Hate: College Boys
--Balto
--Cassandra Drops into Verse
--Meeting-Place
--Song of Americans Resident in France
--Rhyme of an Involuntary Violet
--The Temptress
--To Elspeth
--When We Were Very Sore
--The Accursed
--Chris-Cross
--Grande Passion
--Excursion into Assonance
--...And Return
--Song of Social Life in Hollywood
--Sonnet (II)
--Letter from Dorothy Parker to Ogden Nash
--From New Yorker Review of Theodore Dreiser's 'Dawn'
--Song in the Worst Possible Taste
--Our Cousins
--The Passionate Screen Writer to His Love
--Threat to a Fickle Lady

Index of Titles and First Lines