Text of Poem | These leaden days when the sky is overcast with pen behind my ear to check and close My estimates were often over-size, Such debts would make me fat if I could tame |
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First Line | These leaden days when the sky is overcast |
Original Pub Location | |
Original Publication Date | 1951 |
Original Citation | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 61. |
Complete Poems | 72 |
Hearst Collections | |
Word Count | 131 |
Manuscript | |
Poetic Form | closed |
Bibliographic Notes | Publishing Error: pages 19-20 and 41-42 and incorrectly printed twice, back to back, between pages 30-31 |
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