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WITH AN ALBUM by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

Poet Analysis

First Line: I KNOW NOT WHETHER I AM PROUD
Last Line: EVEN TO WORDS SO DULL AS MINE.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; TASTE (ESTHETICS);
I know not whether I am proud,
But this I know, I hate the crowd:
Therefore pray let me disengage
My verses from the motley page,
Where others far more sure to please
Pour out their choral song with ease.
And yet perhaps, if some should tire
With too much froth or too much fire,
There is an ear that may incline
Even to words so dull as mine.



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