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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IDIOT AND THE CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: There was a house where an old dame
Last Line: It is no worse!' she said.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots
First Line: There was a house where an old dame
Last Line: It is no worse!' she said.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fools; Idiots
There was a house where an old dame
Lived with a son, his child and wife;
And with a son of fifty years,
An idiot all his life.
When others wept this idiot laughed,
When others laughed he then would weep;
The married pair took oath his eyes
Did never close in sleep
Death came that way, and which, think you,
Fell under that old tyrant's spell?
He breathed upon that little child,
Who loved her life so well.
This made the idiot chuckle hard:
The old dame looked at that child dead
And him she loved -- 'Ah, well; thank God
It is no worse!' she said.
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