Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WONDERFUL PLACES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: I am haunted by wonderful places
Last Line: And not by human faces.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Colorado (river); Nature; Travel; Journeys; Trips


I am haunted by wonderful places –
And not by human faces;
My only ghosts, by day or night,
Are Nature's own, of sound or sight.
I see again the hollow, deep and round,
Filled with a murmuring sound;
Where Summer sent her flowers, with bees
And humming-birds to play with these.
Again, and still again, I dream
How Colorado's stream
Squeezed his huge body through
A narrow gorge, and never knew
That Heaven's thunder
Was but a whisper to his own down under.
Again I see the mighty leap
Made by the wild Pacific deep
At Rarotonga, off a coral bed –
With his own mist to hide his face and head.
I am haunted by wonderful places –
And not by human faces.





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