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MODESTIES by PHILIP LARKIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: WORDS AS PLAIN AS HEN-BIRDS' WINGS
Last Line: WEEDS ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GROW, %BUT BY DEGREES %SOME ACHIEVE A FLOWER, ALTHOUGH %NO ONE SEES

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS. ANTHONY THWAITE (ED.)
  LARKIN, PHILIP
  (1989)
 



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