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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE INEXPRESSIBLE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: Thinking of my caged birds indoors
Last Line: Lighten and thunder through the world!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Passion
First Line: Thinking of my caged birds indoors
Last Line: Lighten and thunder through the world!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Passion
Thinking of my caged birds indoors,
My books, whose music serves my will;
Which, when I bid them sing, will sing,
And when I sing myself are still;
And that my scent is drops of ink,
Which, were my song as great as I,
Would sweeten man till he was dust,
And make the world one Araby;
Thinking how my hot passions make
Strong floods of shallows that run cold --
Oh how I burn to make my dreams
Lighten and thunder through the world!
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