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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WORLD DICTATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: The world dictates my life from day to day Last Line: As they go wobbling sideways past my door. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Symphonies; Concerts | |||
The World dictates my life from day to day, It holds my purse, and cuts my pleasures down, If I would ride, it tells me I must walk, It counts my concerts when I live in Town. Yet when I see yon lovely hill this morning, All white and sepia with its trees and snow – Who'll think I'd be a wiser, better man To sit in cushions at a gilded show? So let the World dictate my daily life, Let beauty last till Summer brings me more – Where lovers, paired together, laugh and play, As they go wobbling sideways past my door. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SYMPHONIC STUDIES (AFTER ROBERT SCHUMANN) by EMMA LAZARUS PAPER ANNIVERSARY by MURIEL RUKEYSER AT A BACH CONCERT by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH THAT GENERAL UTILITY RAG, BY OUR OWN IRVING BERLIN by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS A SPRING SYMPHONY by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR BEETHOVEN by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER A NEW YEAR'S SYMPHONY by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON SIXTH SYMPHONY by LIDA MARIE ERWIN MUSIC; TO ETHEL BARTLETT AND RAE ROBERTSON (AFTER THEIR CONCERT) by JOHN FREEMAN A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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