Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOME ONE ELSE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS


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SOME ONE ELSE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Live my life over? I would rather not
Last Line: And were I you, I might improve on yours.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Errors; Experience; Life; Mistakes; Fallacies


Live my life over? I would rather not.
Though I could choose, perhaps, a fairer lot,
I cannot hope I should be worthier it,
Or wiser by experience any whit.
Being what I am, I should but do once more
The things that brought me grief and shame before.
But I should really fancy trying again
For some one else who had lived once in vain:
Somehow another's erring life allures;
And were I you, I might improve on yours.





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