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INGRATITUDE by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEARING WALT WHITMAN IN MIND
Last Line: "NOT AT HOME."
Subject(s): DEATH; POETRY & POETS; WHITMAN, WALT (1819-1891); DEAD, THE;
BEARING Walt Whitman in mind,
I intend to say
On my deathbed:
"I regard my poems as
My @3carte de visite@1
To posterity."
It is sad to have to add
That posterity will reply
"Not at home."



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