Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLIPPERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: When youth is gone, and beauty too Last Line: Will not the other heed? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Youth | ||||||||
When Youth is gone, and Beauty too, And Blood is wild no more How can they prove, when old and weak, That Love is still in power? Will, when their Kisses die for warmth, And flesh has no desire, They fetch each other's slippers from The cupboard to a fire? And will they sit together there, To sleep or sew, or read; And if one hears a sigh, or coughs Will not the other heed? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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