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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUNG BEAUTY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: When at each door the ruffian winds
Last Line: Can feel the joy of summer's heat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Beauty; Youth
First Line: When at each door the ruffian winds
Last Line: Can feel the joy of summer's heat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Beauty; Youth
WHEN at each door the ruffian winds
Have laid a dying man to groan,
And filled the air on winter nights
With cries of infants left alone;
And every thing that has a bed
Will sigh for others that have none:
On such a night, when bitter cold,
Young Beauty, full of love thoughts sweet,
Can redden in her looking-glass;
With but one gown on, in bare feet,
She from her own reflected charms
Can feel the joy of summer's heat.
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