<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369277" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tombstones in the Starlight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I. The Minor Poet</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His little trills and chirpings were his best.<br>No music like the nightingale's was born<br>Within his throat; but he, too, laid his breast<br>Upon a thorn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II. The Pretty Lady</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She hated bleak and wintry things alone.<br>All that was warm and quick, she loved too well-<br>A light, a flame, a heart against her own;<br>It is forever bitter cold, in Hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III. The Very Rich Man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'd have the best, and that was none too good;<br>No barrier could hold, before his terms.<br>He lies below, correct in cypress wood,<br>And entertains the most exclusive worms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV. The Fisherwoman</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The man she had was kind and clean<br>And well enough for every day,<br>But, oh, dear friends, you should have seen<br>The one that got away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V. The Crusader</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arrived in Heaven, when his sands were run,<br>He seized a quill, and sat him down to tell<br>The local press that something should be done<br>About that noisy nuisance, Gabriel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI. The Actress</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her name, cut clear upon this marble cross,<br>Shines, as it shone when she was still on earth;<br>While tenderly the mild, agreeable moss<br>Obscures the figures of her date of birth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dorothy+Parker">Dorothy Parker</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369277" data-title="Tombstones in the Starlight de Dorothy Parker" data-description="I. The Minor Poet His little trills and chirpings were his best. No music like the nightingale's was born Within his throat; but he, too, laid his breast Upon a thorn. II. The Pretty Lady She hated bleak and wintry things alone. All that was w..."></div> </div> </div>

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