Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CATCHING THE DEVIL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: Not while her charms are still in flower
Last Line: O lord, how false she was!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Betrayal


Not while her charms are still in flower,
We'll trust no woman then;
Not till her beauty's gone for good,
Can she be safe with men.
I thought I loved an angel once,
Without one breath of evil —
Till, smiling in my cunning trap,
I saw the very devil!
I set my trap in my friend's face,
With his weak face my glass;
Till, with his looks reflecting hers —
O Lord, how false she was!





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