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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
M IS FOR MOTHER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: It was a long, long time ago
Last Line: Killed by a thing that was her glory.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: It was a long, long time ago
Last Line: Killed by a thing that was her glory.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Mothers
It was a long, long time ago,
Since I was at my mother's knee --
Trying in vain on my tipped toe
To stand as tall as she could sit.
'Your cousin,' said my mother to me,
'Was the loveliest girl in Pontypool,
Or through the Rhondda Valley; still
The girls would look at her sweet face,
As though there were no boys; for she
Had heaps of hair which, when combed down,
Could be a coat, or half a gown.
Until one day when full of joy,
To hear my baby coo so well,
She tossed that hair, and its full weight
Breaking her slender neck -- she fell.
Your cousin died -- to end our story --
Killed by a thing that was her glory.'
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