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SUNSET GUN

Poems

SUNSET GUN

Poems by

DOROTHY PARKER

NEW YORK
BONI & LIVERIGHT
1928

COPYRIGHT 1928 :: BY BONI & LIVERIGHT, Inc. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

First printing, June, 1928
Second printing, June, 1928

For

JOHN

The verses in this book were first printed in the Bookman, the New Republic, the Nation, the New Yorker, Life, McCall’s magazine, the Yale Review, the New York World, and the New York Post.

Contents

	PAGE
Godmother	13
Partial Comfort	14
The Red Dress	15
Victoria	16
The Counsellor	17
Parable for a Certain Virgin	18
Bric-à-brac	20
Interior	21
Reuben’s Children	22
For R.C.B.	23
There Was One	24
On Cheating the Fiddler	26
Incurable	27
Fable	28
The Second Oldest Story	29
A Pig’s Eye View of Literature
The Lives and Times of John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron	30
Oscar Wilde	30
Harriet Beecher Stowe	30
D. G. Rossetti	31
Thomas Carlyle	31
Charles Dickens	31
Alexandre Dumas and His Son	31
Alfred Lord Tennyson	31
George Gissing	32
Walter Savage Landor	32
George Sand	32
Mortal Enemy	33
Penelope	34
Bohemia	35
The Searched Soul	36
The Trusting Heart	37
Thought for a Sunshiny Morning	38
The Gentlest Lady	39
The Maid-Servant at the Inn	40
Fulfilment	41
Daylight Saving	42
Surprise	43
Swan Song	44
On Being a Woman	45
Afternoon	46
A Dream Lies Death	47
The Homebody	48
Second Love	49
Fair Weather	50
The Whistling Girl	51
Story	52
Frustration	53
Healed	54
Landscape	55
Post-Graduate	56
Verses in the Night
Honeymoon	57
Triolet	58
Mélange for the Unknown George	59
Liebestod	60
For a Favorite Grand-daughter	62
Dilemma	63
Theory	64
A Fairly Sad Tale	65
The Last Question	66
Superfluous Advice	67
Directions for Finding the Bard	68
But Not Forgotten	69
Two-Volume Novel	70
Pour Prendre Congé	71
For a Lady Who Must Write Verse	72
Rhyme Against Living	73
Wisdom	74
Coda	75

SUNSET GUN

Poems

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.

The longest-living author of this work died in 1967, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 56 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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