Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JENNY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: Now I grow old, and flowers are weeds Last Line: The world seems one big grave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Memory | ||||||||
Now I grow old, and flowers are weeds, I think of days when weeds were flowers; When Jenny lived across the way, And shared with me her childhood hours. Her little teeth did seem so sharp, So bright and bold, when they were shown, You'd think if passion stirred her she Could bite and hurt a man of stone. Her curls, like golden snakes, would lie Upon each shoulder's front, as though To guard her face on either side -- They raised themselves when Winds did blow. How sly they were! I could not see, Nor she feel them begin to climb Across her lips, till there they were, To be forced back time after time. If I could see an Elm in May Turn all his dark leaves into pearls, And shake them in the light of noon -- That sight had not shamed Jenny's curls. And, like the hay, I swear her hair Was getting golder every day; Yes, golder when 'twas harvested, Under a bonnet stacked away. Ah, Jenny's gone, I know not where; Her face I cannot hope to see; And every time I think of her The world seems one big grave to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND THE SAME QUESTION by JOHN HOLLANDER FORGET HOW TO REMEMBER HOW TO FORGET by JOHN HOLLANDER ON THAT SIDE by LAWRENCE JOSEPH MEMORY OF A PORCH by DONALD JUSTICE BEYOND THE HUNTING WOODS by DONALD JUSTICE A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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