(What is a dead girl but a shadowy ghost Or a dead man’s voice but a distant and vain affirmation Like dream words most)
ATTRIBUTION:
Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982), U.S. poet. “Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments,” (l. 26–28). . .
Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
