"Despise me not And not be queasy To praise somewhat Verse is not easy"
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'For my Contemporaries' from - The Helmsman 1942
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J. V. Cunningham
James Vincent Cunningham (August 23, 1911 – March 30, 1985) was an American poet, sometimes described as a neo-classicist or anti-modernist.
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