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William Henry Davies


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Here's an example from
A Butterfly;
That on a rough, hard rock
Happy can lie;
Friendless and all alone
On this unsweetened stone.

Now let my bed be hard
No care take I;
I'll make my joy like this
Small Butterfly;
Whose happy heart has power
To make a stone a flower.

This poem is in the public domain.

 


William Henry Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet who started out as a rounder but ended up a respected poet. Raised by grandparents after his father died and his mother remarried, William was inclined toward a life of adventure; he traveled by boat to North America repeatedly before losing a leg in attempting to jump a train. He eventually returned to England, wrote a book about his wandering years, paid and starved his way into becoming a published poet and, eventually, gained equal standing with such contemporaries as Yeats and Ezra Pound.

 


Post New Comment:
Larry Schug:
The last line says so much about poets and poetry.
Posted 05/11/2015 07:43 AM
KevinArnold:
Ah, the brevity. I'm always a sucker for brevity.
Posted 05/11/2015 12:57 AM


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