HARNED / WHITMAN

Manuscripts 

POETRY FILE

"You Lingering Sparse heaves of Me" 

[co.1887]

Box 1  Folder 10

(h.c.31)
*31 [Trial lines for] YOU LINGERING SPARSE LEAVES OF ME [ca. 1887]
1 p. 23½ x 15 cm. Holograph, written and revised in pencil on brown
paper.
Manuscript title: "Sparse, Wintry Little Leaves."
First published in Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1887.

Sparse, [clinging] wintry little leaves
Sparse [clinging] wintry little leaves of me
The [leaf?] leaves are clinging to,
[Born to] [Dotting] [to the] to bare [November] December
boughs. the bloom of
[Pour] summer [??st]
[With] With wilted fruits pass'd by
in garnering time late in [monthly?]
The flaunters of born. [and] [late].
worth – These [your] ye remnants
valueless!  [you flaunters] to happiness beginning
Dear [yet] Dear, because the [hardiest]
and the last.
Ye flaunters born and
As to some [true] tree
or field or orchard 
row.

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