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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COME AWAY, DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: Come away, death, make no mistake
Last Line: A dead-born child destroy its mother.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
First Line: Come away, death, make no mistake
Last Line: A dead-born child destroy its mother.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies
Come away, Death, make no mistake,
There's no one in that house to die;
She's young and strong, though suffering pain,
And waits to hear her first-born's cry.
'Nay,' answered Death, 'there's no mistake,
I've been to this same house before;
Though no one saw a corpse come out,
Or any mourner at the door.
'I've been to this same house before,
I know it well from any other:
And now I come again, to see
A dead-born child destroy its mother.'
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