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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STINGS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee
Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness
First Line: Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee
Last Line: When I with all the world was still at war.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Loneliness
Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee
Has ever stung a flower in all his life:
Neither, my love, can I think ill of you,
Though half the world and I may be at strife.
Can I forget your coming, like the Moon
When, robed in light, alone, without a star,
She visits ruins; and the peace you brought,
When I with all the world was still at war.
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