Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SWEETER LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: No bitter tongue, no grief for what is gone Last Line: To hold her skein and wind a ball of wool? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Happiness; Love; Joy; Delight | ||||||||
No bitter tongue, no grief for what is gone, Shall enter here, where Love with me is staying; Only from books we'll know what Sorrow means, And keep sad thoughts for when there's Music playing. Give me a simple, sweet, dove-tempered spirit, That thinks unpleasing Truth must be a lie; To lose all memory of unfriendly men, Where all unkindness has gone home to die. From what, think you, comes this exalted state, That makes life now so rich in joy, and full; What woman taught me that it needs four hands To hold her skein and wind a ball of wool? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS by KENNETH KOCH SO MUCH HAPPINESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE CROWD CONDITIONS by JOHN ASHBERY I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS by MARVIN BELL A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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