{"id":111872,"date":"2022-05-04T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111872"},"modified":"2022-05-04T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T18:43:26","slug":"rainy-night-by-dorothy-parker-1893-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111872","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Night By Dorothy Parker  (1893-1967)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111872\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=111872\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111873 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Parker-2-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Parker-2-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Parker-2.jpeg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Favorite Poem of Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Ghosts of all my lovely sins,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Who attend too well my pillow,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Gay the wanton rain begins;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Hide the limp and tearful willow.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Turn aside your eyes and ears,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Trail away your robes of sorrow,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>You shall have my further years,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>You shall walk with me tomorrow.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I am sister to the rain;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Fey and sudden and unholy,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Petulant at the windowpane,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Quickly lost, remembered slowly.<!--more--><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I have lived with shades, a shade;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I am hung with graveyard flowers.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Let me be tonight arrayed<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>In the silver of the showers.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Every fragile thing shall rust;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>When another April passes<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I may be a furry dust,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Sifting through the brittle grasses.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>All sweet sins shall be forgot;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Who will live to tell their siring?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Hear me now, nor let me rot<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Wistful still, and still aspiring.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Ghosts of dear temptations, heed;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>I am frail, be you forgiving.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>See you not that I have need<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>To be living with the living?<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Sail, tonight, the Styx\u2019s breast;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Glide among the dim processions<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Of the exquisite unblest,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Spirits of my shared transgressions.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Roam with young Persephone,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Plucking poppies for your slumber \u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>With the morrow, there shall be<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>One more wraith among your number.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favorite Poem of Karen Beishuizen Ghosts of all my lovely sins, Who attend too well my pillow, Gay the wanton rain begins; Hide the limp and tearful willow. Turn aside your eyes and ears, Trail away your robes of sorrow, You shall have my further years, You shall walk with me tomorrow. 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