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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DOG'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: My dog lies dead and buried here
Last Line: That links such lives with my dog's death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: My dog lies dead and buried here
Last Line: That links such lives with my dog's death!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness
My dog lies dead and buried here,
My little Pet for five sweet years.
As I stand here, beside her grave,
With eyes gone dim, and blind with tears –
I see it rising up and down,
As though she lay in a sleeping-gown.
Forgive me, Pet, that half these tears,
Which make my eyes go dim and blind,
Should come from thoughts of love betrayed,
When I had trust in my own kind:
And Christ forgive this living breath
That links such lives with my dog's death!
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