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


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First Line: When I went down past charing cross
Last Line: All crazy for my burning crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


When I went down past Charing Cross,
A plain and simple man was I;
I might have been no more than air,
Unseen by any mortal eye.

But, Lord in Heaven, had I the power
To show my inward spirit there,
Then what a pack of human hounds
Had hunted me, to strip me bare.

A human pack, ten thousand strong,
All in full cry to bring me down;
All greedy for my magic robe,
All crazy for my burning crown.





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