Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VISITOR (2), by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES



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First Line: Her beauty is a wasted thing
Last Line: Come back and sing again?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Selfishness


Her beauty is a wasted thing,
She's neither sweet nor kind;
And flowers that have no other eyes
Than raindrops soon go blind.

She is a park that has no deer
To give it life or grace;
Until I think the wilderness
A more enchanted place.

Her Ten Commandments are her own,
She knows no other Creed;
The only babies in her eyes
Are selfish thoughts and greed.

Her beauty is a wasted thing,
Is Nature's loss and pain;
When will the little, plain, brown bird
Come back and sing again?





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