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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR SUSSEX DOWNS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My youth is gone -- my youth that laughed and yawned Last Line: "and youth that laughs and yawns in one short breath." Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Sussex, England | |||
MY youth is gone -- my youth that laughed and yawned In one sweet breath, and will not come again; And crumbs of wonder are my scanty fare, Snatched from the beauty on a hill or plain. So, as I look, I wonder if the land Has breathed those shadows in the waters blue! From all first sounds I half expect to hear, Not only echoes, but their echoes too. But when I see -- the first time in my life -- Our Sussex Downs, so mighty, strong and bare That many a wood of fifteen hundred trees Seems but a handful scattered lightly there -- "What a great hour," think I, "half-way 'twixt Death And Youth that laughs and yawns in one short breath." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD SQUIRE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH WORTH FOREST by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE GUNS IN SUSSEX by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE RUN OF THE DOWNS by RUDYARD KIPLING BEACHY HEAD by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 31. WRITTEN IN FARM WOOD, SOUTH DOWNS by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 33. TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN by CHARLOTTE SMITH A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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