Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ROCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: Love kissed me in a strange, untruthful hour Last Line: Shook faster than a lamb's tail, in its singing. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. | ||||||||
Love kissed me in a strange, untruthful hour, All for a smiling lip and shining eye; Not knowing that my thoughts were far from her, Set on a wonder in the years gone by. It was the vision of a mighty rock That faced the East, across Long Island Sound; From which a hundred tongues of water burst, And sang me into slumber on the ground. And how I, waking in the night-time, saw A large, white butterfly of moonlight clinging To that rock's forehead, while each silver tongue Shook faster than a lamb's tail, in its singing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CHILD'S PET by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A MOTHER TO HER SICK CHILD by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A STRANGE MEETING by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A THOUGHT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES ADVICE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES APRIL'S LAMBS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES BIRD AND BROOK by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES COWSLIPS AND LARKS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES DAYS TOO SHORT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES EARLY MORN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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