Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LEGACY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES



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First Line: She died when I was wild and young
Last Line: In the kiss on her ghostly hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


She died when I was wild and young,
And I myself am old by now;
And still her small, few shillings come,
Like shoots from a severed bough.
Though they have dwindled, year by year,
Can I despise these tiny gains –
Worth little more than children's weeds
Picked in the woods and kissed in lanes?
Not while I think her spirit lives
And, close beside me, understands
The grateful love – so long delayed –
In the kiss on her ghostly hands.





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