This poem opens with the line "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain," and was written on a set of 80 index cards during the last twenty days of the poet's life.  
The fourth and final canto of this poem mentions the poet's earlier works Dim Gulf, Night Rote, and Hebe's Cup, before stating that "this transparent thingum does require / some moondrop title."  In another section of this poem, the narrator experiences "the attack, the trance / or one of my old fits," during which he envisions a tall white fountain.  That near-death experience occurs as he is giving a talk at the Institute of Preparation for the Hereafter.  A discussion of a young female character in this work's second canto includes the lines "Why overstress / the physical? She wants to look a mess. / Virgins have written some resplendent books." That character, the poet's daughter, is later described leaving a failed double date, getting off the bus early at Lochanhead, and drowning in the lake.  This poem opens with the line "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain," and was written on a set of 80 index cards during the last twenty days of the poet's life.  For 10 points, identify this work of John Shade, annotated by Charles Kinbote, a 999-line poem which appears in a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
The fourth and final canto of this poem mentions the poet's earlier works Dim Gulf, Night Rote, and Hebe's Cup, before stating that "this transparent thingum does require / some moondrop title."  
{Pale Fire}