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The Quarterly Review - Page 402
1916
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Queen's Quarterly, Volume 30

1923 - 496 pages
...Pound is not poetry, even although it might well have been said 'actually in life under emotion' : I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of...rolled. Shall I part my hair behind, do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaid singing...
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Poetry, Volume 6

Harriet Monroe - 1915 - 380 pages
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse ; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trowsers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind ? Do I dare to eat a peach ? I shall wear white flannel...
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From Shakespeare to O. Henry: Studies in Literature

Stuart Petre Brodie Mais - 1917 - 344 pages
...turning toward the window, should say: “That is not it at all, That is not what I meant at all.” I grow old. . . I grow old. I shall wear the bottoms...• Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing,...
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Poetry, Volume 16

Harriet Monroe - 1920 - 400 pages
...the sympathetic accuracy of the context. For instance the three lines: I grow old .... I grow .... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? In Portrait of a Lady we find a like startling acuteness for details, with a dramatic ending...
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American Poetry Since 1900

Louis Untermeyer - 1923 - 462 pages
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old ... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. But this volume is not compounded only of psychological involutions and the confused murmur of broken...
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Reprints. Series X. (Philology), Volume 2

University of Sydney - 1925 - 352 pages
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse ; At times, indeed, most ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. And so he settles back into his commonplace, unpretentious lot; youth's dreams are not for him. The...
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The Hound & Horn, Volume 1

1927 - 506 pages
...flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. I grow old .... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Almost immediately after which last comes, as a very lovely and astonishing surprise, the well-known...
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The Hound & Horn, Volume 1

1927 - 472 pages
...flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. I grow old .... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Almost immediately after which last comes, as a very lovely and astonishing surprise, the well-known...
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An Anthology of World Poetry

Mark Van Doren - 1928 - 1390 pages
...high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. I grow old ... I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms...rolled, Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing,...
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The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life ..., Volume 75

1932 - 1028 pages
...all into a pattern, grotesque, beautiful, meaningless, pregnant, intense, and startling all in one: I grow old, ... I grow old I shall wear the bottoms of my rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach ? I shall wear white flannel trousers,...
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