Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BEAUTIFUL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: Three things there are more beautiful
Last Line: Showing her child before it is born.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Beauty


THREE things there are more beautiful
Than any man could wish to see:
The first, it is a full-rigged ship
Sailing with all her sails set free;
The second, when the wind and sun
Are playing in a field of corn;
The third, a woman, young and fair,
Showing her child before it is born.





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