The bird that feeds from off my palm
Is sleek, affectionate, and calm,
But double, to me, is worth the thrush
A-flickering in the elder-bush.

(C) Dorothy Parker
01/01/2000


Best Poems of Dorothy Parker

• A Well-worn Story
• Indian Summer
• Comment
• Paths
• Autumn Valentine
• Condolence
• Solace
• Men
• Sight
• Fair Weather
• The Leal
• Epitaph
• The Choice
• A Pigs-eye View Of Literature
• A Portrait
• Autobiography
• Inscription For The Ceiling Of A Bedroom
• August
• Inventory