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Poem by Digby Mackworth Dolben


Last Words


I, living, drew thee from the vale
 Parnassus' height to climb with me.
I, dying, bid thee turn, and scale
 Alone the hill of Calvary.



Digby Mackworth Dolben


Digby Mackworth Dolben's other poems:
  1. Homo Factus Est
  2. Sister Death
  3. There Was One Who Walked in Shadow
  4. The Annunciation
  5. Brevi Tempore Magnum Perfecit Opus


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Allan Cunningham Last Words ("Gane were but the winter cauld")
  • Amy Levy Last Words ("Dead! all’s done with!")
  • Sylvia Plath Last Words ("I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus")

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