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Poem by Dorothy Parker


Philosophy


If I should labor through daylight and dark,
  Consecrate, valorous, serious, true,
Then on the world I may blazon my mark;
  And what if I don't, and what if I do?



Dorothy Parker


Dorothy Parker's other poems:
  1. The Thin Edge
  2. Social Note
  3. Spring Song
  4. Indian Summer
  5. Ballade at Thirty-five


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Richard Hovey Philosophy ("I SOMETIMES long to throw my books away")
  • Amy Levy Philosophy ("Ere all the world had grown so drear")
  • Ella Wilcox Philosophy ("At morn the wise man walked abroad")
  • Norman Gale Philosophy ("'Tis sometimes Fortune's little joke")
  • Edith Nesbit Philosophy ("THE sulky sage scarce condescends to see")

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