{"id":117864,"date":"2023-02-08T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117864"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:45:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:45:37","slug":"dorothy-parker-poem-the-gentlest-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117864","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Parker Poem:  The Gentlest Lady"},"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><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117864\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=117864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-117865 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dorothy-Parker-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dorothy-Parker-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Dorothy-Parker.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Beishuizen <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>They say He was a serious child,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>And quiet in His ways;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>They say the gentlest lady smiled<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>To hear the neighbour&#8217;s praise.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The coffers of her heart would close<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Upon their smaliest word.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>Yet did they say, &#8220;How tall He grows!&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>They thought she had not heard.<!--more--><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>They say upon His birthday eve<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>She&#8217;d rock Him to His rest<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>As if she could not have Him leave<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The shelter of her breast.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The poor must go in bitter thrift,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>The poor must give in pain,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>But ever did she get a gift<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>To greet His day again.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>They say she&#8217;d kiss the Boy awake,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>And hail Him gay and clear,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>But oh, her heart was like to break<\/strong><\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>To count another year.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808000;\"><a style=\"color: #808000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.authorhouse.com\/en\/bookstore\/bookdetails\/232300-BOXING-INTERVIEWS-OF-A-LIFETIME\">Click Here to Order Boxing Interviews Of A Lifetime By &#8220;Bad&#8221; Brad Berkwitt<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karen Beishuizen They say He was a serious child, And quiet in His ways; They say the gentlest lady smiled To hear the neighbour&#8217;s praise. The coffers of her heart would close Upon their smaliest word. Yet did they say, &#8220;How tall He grows!&#8221; They thought she had not heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132,17984],"tags":[30387],"class_list":["post-117864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","category-entertainment-news","tag-dorothy-parker-poem-the-gentlest-lady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117864"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}