Death & Dying
Pensive and Faltering
From Leaves of Grass
Death & Dying
Pensive and faltering,
The words the Dead I write,
For living are the Dead,
(Haply the only living, only real,
And I the apparition, I the spectre.)
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MLA
Whitman, Walt. “Pensive and Faltering.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/249/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “Pensive and Faltering.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/249/.
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