Living
Give Me for Life the Honest Name
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Give me for life the honest name,
Then take my due arrears of fame.
I am grown deaf, and shall become
A trifle deafer in the tomb.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Give Me for Life the Honest Name.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/939/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Give Me for Life the Honest Name.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/939/.
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