Good-Bye My Fancy

by Walt Whitman · 1891-1892
Published 01/07/1891

GOOD-BYE * my fancy—(I had a word to say,

But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say,

Is when its proper place arrives—and for its meaning,

I keep mine till the last.)

#farewell #melancholy #self restraint #unspoken words #walt whitman

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