[lit-ideas] Manly Flower Snubbed

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  • Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 20:25:44 EST

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
One Perfect Rose


              A single flow'r he sent me, since we met. 
                  All tenderly his messenger he chose; 
              Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet -- 
                  One perfect rose. 


              I knew the language of the floweret; 
                  "My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose." 
              Love long has taken for his amulet 
                  One perfect rose. 


              Why is it no one ever sent me yet 
                 One perfect limousine, do you suppose? 
             Ah no, it's always just my luck to get 
                One perfect rose. 


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