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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHARMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: She walks as lightly as the fly
Last Line: Nothing can come but comes amiss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love
First Line: She walks as lightly as the fly
Last Line: Nothing can come but comes amiss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love
She walks as lightly as the fly
Skates on the water in July.
To hear her moving petticoat,
For me is music's highest note.
Stones are not heard, when her feet pass,
No more than tumps of moss or grass.
When she sits still, she's like the flower
To be a butterfly next hour.
The brook laughs not more sweet, when he
Trips over pebbles suddenly.
My Love, like him, can whisper low --
When he comes where green cresses grow.
She rises like the lark, that hour
He goes half-way to meet a shower.
A fresher drink is in her looks
Than Nature gives me, or old books.
When I in my Love's shadow sit,
I do not miss the sun one bit.
When she is near, my arms can hold
All that's worth having in this world.
And when I know not where she is,
Nothing can come but comes amiss.
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