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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
R IS FOR REMEMBRANCE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: I have no memory of his face
Last Line: There's some big giant lives in there!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Variant Title(s): A Memory
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: I have no memory of his face
Last Line: There's some big giant lives in there!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Variant Title(s): A Memory
Subject(s): Memory
I have no memory of his face,
A bearded man or smooth and bare;
I never heard my mother call
My father either dark or fair.
All I remember is a coat
Of velvet, buttoned on his breast;
Where I, when tired of fingering it,
Would lay my childish head and rest.
His voice was low and seldom heard,
His body small -- I've heard it said;
But his hoarse cough made children think
Of monsters growling to be fed.
If any children took that road,
And heard my father coughing near,
They whispered, 'Hist! Away, away --
There's some big giant lives in there!'
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