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ROMANCE AND SEX: UNFORTUNATE COINCIDENCE by DOROTHY PARKER

Poet Analysis

First Line: BY THE TIME YOU SWEAR YOU'RE HIS
Last Line: ONE OF YOU IS LYING
Subject(s): EROTIC LOVE; MNEMONICS;

Poem Sources:

THE FABER BOOK OF USEFUL VERSE.
  BRETT, SIMON (ED.)
  (1981)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. 3RD ED. ED, BY ALEXANDER ALLISON, BLAKE HERBERT, ET AL.
  ALLISON, ALEXANDER (ED.)
  (1983)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. FOURTH EDITION.
  FERGUSON, MARGARET, SALTER, MARY JO, & STALLWORTHY, JON (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
POETRY IN MOTION: 100 POEMS FROM THE SUBWAYS AND BUSES.
  PEACOCK, MOLLY, PASCHEN, ELISE, AND NECHES, NEIL (EDS.)
  (1996)
 
LOVE SONGS AND SONNETS.
  WASHINGTON, PETER (ED.)
  (1997)
 
LIGHTEN UP!: 100 FUNNY LITTLE POEMS.
  LANSKY, BRUCE
  (1998)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY.
  NELSON, CARY (ED.)
  (2000)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF LIGHT VERSE.
  KRONENBERGER, LOUIS (ED.)
  (1935)
 



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