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               Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

                          One Perfect Rose

First Line:     A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.

This Poem was published in the humor magazine Life on January 4, 1923. As such it is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder.

It can be found, for example, in:

  • Parker, Dorothy. Enough Rope. New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1940.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Fourth Edition). New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.