Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THREE SCORE AND TEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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THREE SCORE AND TEN, by                 Poet Analysis    
First Line: Ten junes to hear the nightingale
Last Line: In ten years' reckoning up, my dear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Wedding Song; Epithalamium


Ten Junes to hear the Nightingale,
Ten Aprils for the Cuckoo's coming;
And only ten more Februarys, Love,
To celebrate our wedding.
Come, happier thoughts, and cry 'Good Morrow'!
Though we but kiss three times a day,
Three hundred days and sixty five,
In every year, must come our way!
Think how these kisses too will make
One thousand and ninety-five a year!
And all the thousands that must follow
In ten years' reckoning up, my Dear!





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