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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COME, MELANCHOLY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: Come, melancholy, come, delight
Last Line: That casts a halo on our birth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection
First Line: Come, melancholy, come, delight
Last Line: That casts a halo on our birth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection
Come, Melancholy, come, Delight:
Let's croak of misery, like a frog.
Let us pretend the window's shut
For the cat, and a door for the dog.
Let us pretend that every door's
Made fast, to all except the Bee –
Who finds a keyhole every time,
And passes in without a key.
Let us pretend that Life's a babe
All wrapt in clay, with pins of ice,
Without a nurse to tuck it in,
Or sooth it with a softer voice.
And when we have imagined these,
Refusing peace, and scorning mirth –
We'll light our pipes and blow a smoke
That casts a halo on our birth!
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