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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FANCY'S HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: Tell me, fancy, sweetest child
Last Line: I have nourished ever since.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Home
First Line: Tell me, fancy, sweetest child
Last Line: I have nourished ever since.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Home
Tell me, Fancy, sweetest child,
Of thy parents and thy birth;
Had they silk, and had they gold,
And a park to wander forth,
With a castle green and old?
In a cottage I was born,
My kind father was Content,
My dear mother Innocence;
On wild fruits of wonderment
I have nourished ever since.
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