Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English ... It's not the kind of comforting book that will help you grieve; it's a haunting meditation on love and loss.

Read the poem in its entirety, as well as some more funny poems, in Parker’s 1926 poetry collection Enough Rope: A Book of Light Verse. In the mood for more witty laughs? Read these limericks ...