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STINGS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: THOUGH BEES HAVE STINGS, I DOUBT IF ANY BEE
Last Line: WHEN I WITH ALL THE WORLD WAS STILL AT WAR.
Subject(s): ABSENCE; LOVE - LOSS OF; SOLITUDE; SEPARATION; ISOLATION; LONELINESS;
Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee
Has ever stung a flower in all his life:
Neither, my love, can I think ill of you,
Though half the world and I may be at strife.

Can I forget your coming, like the Moon
When, robed in light, alone, without a star,
She visits ruins; and the peace you brought,
When I with all the world was still at war.



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