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


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First Line: A jar of cider and my pipe
Last Line: Will think myself the king of men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Idleness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence


A jar of cider and my pipe,
In summer, under shady tree;
A book of one that made his mind
Live by its sweet simplicity:
Then must I laugh at kings who sit
In richest chambers, signing scrolls;
And princes cheered in public ways,
And stared at by a thousand fools.

Let me be free to wear my dreams,
Like weeds in some mad maiden's hair,
When she doth think the earth has not
Another maid so rich and fair;
And proudly smiles on rich and poor,
The queen of all fair women then:
So I, dressed in my idle dreams,
Will think myself the king of men.





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