Complete Poems
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Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America. This Penguin Classics edition of her poetry - the companion to Parker's Complete Stories and introduced by her noted biographer, Marion Meade - is the only complete collection available, showcasing the dry quips and piercingly introspective verse of a writer whose legend continues to fascinate. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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CondolenceThey hurried here as soon as you had died,Their faces damp with haste and sympathy,And pressed my hand in theirs, and smoothed my knee,And clicked their tongues and watched me, mournful-eyed.Gently they told me of that Other-sideHow, even then, you waited there for me,And what ecstatic meeting ours would be.Moved by the lovely tale, they broke, and cried.And when I smiled, they told me I was brave,And they rejoiced that I was comforted,And left to tell of all the help they gave.But I had smiled to think how you, the dead,So curiously preoccupied and grave,Would laugh, could you have heard the things they said
I've got a few other favourites from her collection of poetry: Fulfilment, Charles Dickens, Godspeed, Little Words, Rainy Day, Recurrence, Resumé, Solace, Tombstones in the starlight and Verse for a certain dog.
