Interior

By Dorothy Parker

Her mind lives in a quiet room,

 A narrow room, and tall,

With pretty lamps to quench the gloom

 And mottoes on the wall.

There all the things are waxen neat

 And set in decorous lines;

And there are posies, round and sweet,

 And little, straightened vines.

Her mind lives tidily, apart

 From cold and noise and pain,

And bolts the door against her heart,

 Out wailing in the rain.