Enough Rope

by Dorothy Parker

90 chapters1h 37mEnglish1926

About this book

A collection of poems by Dorothy Parker that previously appeared in Life, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and The New York World. Included here is the famous short poem "News Item": Men seldom make passes - At girls who wear glasses. - Summary by mleigh

Chapters (90)

1Threnody

2The Small Hours

3The False Friends

4The Trifler

5A Very Short Song

6A Well-Worn Story

7Convalescent

8The Dark Girl's Rhyme

9Epitaph

10Light of Love

11Wail

12The Satin Dress

13Somebody's Song

14Anecdote

15Braggart

16Epitaph for a Darling Lady

17To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady

18Paths

19Hearthside

20The New Love

21Rainy Night

140

22For a Sad Lady

23Recurrence

24Story of Mrs. W——

25The Dramatists

26August

27The White Lady

28I Know I Have Been Happiest

29Testament

30"I Shall Come Back"

31Condolence

32The Immortals

33A Portrait

34Portrait of the Artist

35Chant for Dark Hours

36Unfortunate Coincidence

37Verse Reporting Late Arrival at a Conclusion

38Inventory

39Now at Liberty

40Comment

41Plea

105

42Pattern

43De Profundis

44They Part

45Ballade of a Great Weariness

115

46Résumé

47Renunciation

48Day-Dreams

49The Veteran

50Prophetic Soul

51Verse for a Certain Dog

112

52Folk Tune

53Godspeed

54Song of Perfect Propriety

120

55Social Note

56One Perfect Rose

57Ballade at Thirty-five

113

58The Thin Edge

59Spring Song

60Love Song

61Indian Summer

62Philosophy

63For an Unknown Lady

64The Leal

65Finis

66Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror

67Men

68News Item

69Song of One of the Girls

70Lullaby

102

71Faut de Mieux

72Roundel

73A Certain Lady

74Observation

75Symptom Recital

76Fighting Words

77Rondeau Redoublé

110

78Autobiography

79The Choice

80Ballade of Big Plans

114

81General Review of the Sex Situation

82Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom

83Pictures in the Smoke

84Biographies

225

85Nocturne

86Interview

87Song in a Minor Key

88Experience

89Neither Bloody Nor Bowed

90The Burned Child

Enough Rope

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