Living
Life
From An American Anthology (1900)
Living
What, comrade of a night,
No sooner meet than fight?
Before the word, the blow?
Well, be it so.
Yet think not Thou I yield,
Lost on a lonely field.
Lo! to my fainting breath,
My champion, Death!
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MLA
Brown, Alice. “Life.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brown_a/5/.
Chicago
Brown, Alice. “Life.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brown_a/5/.
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