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Dorothy Parker

The American poet and short-story writer Parker was born in West End, New Jersey. While serving as drama critic for Vanity Fair from 1916 to 1917 and book critic for the New Yorker in 1927, she gained an almost legendary

Sweet Violets

by Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

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You are brief and frail and blue—

Little sisters, I am, too.

You are heaven's masterpieces—

Little loves, the likeness ceases.

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