Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A CAT'S EXAMPLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: For three whole days I and my cat
Last Line: Would burn up any human lover.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love; Passion; Poetry & Poets


For three whole days I and my cat
Have come up here, and patiently sat —
We sit and wait on silent Time;
He for a mouse that scratched close by,
At a hole where he sets his eye —
And I for some music and rhyme.

Is this the Poet's secret, that
He waits in patience, like this cat,
To start a dream from under cover?
A cat's example, too, in love,
With Passion's every trick and move,
Would burn up any human lover.





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