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


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First Line: If life gives friends
Last Line: Had death been coming soon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


If Life gives friends,
'Tis Death that keeps them true;
When living long
Time proves them false and few;
So Life's a boon
When Death is coming soon.

Life has no joy
Except we cherish some
Illusive dream:
If Wisdom come,
Life were no boon --
Did Death not come more soon.

I loved a maid
Time has proved false to be;
Would Death had come
When true that maid to me!
Life were a boon
Had Death been coming soon.





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