Everyday Poems » Davis, William H. http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday A Poem Every Day Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:37:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 THE MOON by William H. Davies http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/2010/the-moon-by-william-h-davies/ http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/2010/the-moon-by-william-h-davies/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:00:34 +0000 admin http://www.everywritersresource.com/poemeveryday/?p=391 According to his own biography, William H. Davies was born in a public-house called Church House at Newport, in the County of Monmouthshire, April 20, 1870, of Welsh parents. He was, until Bernard Shaw "discovered" him, a cattleman, a berry-picker, a panhandler—in short, a vagabond. In a preface to Davies' second book, The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1906)]]>

William H. Davies (1871-1940)

THE MOON by William H. Davies

Thy beauty haunts me heart and soul,
Oh, thou fair Moon, so close and bright;
Thy beauty makes me like the child
That cries aloud to own thy light:
The little child that lifts each arm
To press thee to her bosom warm.
Though there are birds that sing this night
With thy white beams across their throats,
Let my deep silence speak for me
More than for them their sweetest notes:
Who worships thee till music fails,
Is greater than thy nightingales.

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