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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TELL ME, WORLD, AND TELL ME, NATURE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: No spoilt, no pampered child am I
Last Line: Am I a spoilt and pampered creature?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Nature
First Line: No spoilt, no pampered child am I
Last Line: Am I a spoilt and pampered creature?
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Nature
No spoilt, no pampered child am I,
Neither by Nature nor the World;
Enough to keep my Body in breath
Is all I get in silver and gold.
How many pools have been my haunts,
Which but a Moorhen stirred,
To see my great Kingfisher twice —
That wild and lovely, life-sought Bird!
And many a Rainbow too has come
All silently in Heaven, and gone,
Between last Blackberry-time and this —
While I saw only one!
Then tell me, World, and tell me, Nature —
Am I a spoilt and pampered creature?
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