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William Henry Davies (1871 — 1940). English poet ~ Biography ~ Works on Wikisource

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Contents 1 Works 1.1 English poems 1.1.1 The Soul's Destroyer (1905) 1.1.2 New Poems (1907) 1.1.3 Nature Poems (1908) 1.1.4 Farewell to Poesy (1910) 1.1.5 Songs of Joy (1911) 1.1.6 Foliage (1913) 1.1.7 The Bird of Paradise (1914) 1.1.8 Child Lovers (1916) 1.1.9 Forty New Poems (1918) 1.1.10 A Poet's Pilgrimage (1918) 1.1.11 Collected Poems (1916) 1.1.12 The Song of Life (1920) 1.1.13 True Travellers (1923) 1.1.14 The Hour of Magic (1922) 1.1.15 Secrets (1924) 1.1.16 A Poet's Alphabet (1925) 1.1.17 Later Days (1925) 1.1.18 The Song of Love (1926) 1.1.19 A Poet's Calendar (1927) 1.1.20 Ambition (1929) 1.1.21 Poems 1930-1931 (1932) 1.1.22 My Birds (1933) 1.1.23 My Garden (1933) 1.1.24 Love Poems (1935) 1.1.25 The Birth of Song (1936) 1.1.26 The Loneliest Mountain (1939) 1.2 English autobiography

Works

English poems

The Soul's Destroyer (1905)

• Autumn
• Beauty's Light
• Sleep
• A Drinking Song
• Death
• Love Absent
• The Prover
• Love's Coming
• In a Lodging House
• Lines to a Sparrow
• The Hill-side Park
• The Lodging House Fire
• Saints and Lodgers
• The Soul's Destroyer

New Poems (1907)

• Margery
• The Ways of Time
• The Likeness
• Ale
• Scotty Bill
• The Ox
• Catharine
• The Forsaken Dead
• A Blind Child
• Wondering Brown
• Music
• Facts
• New-comers
• Parted
• The Jolly Tramp
• The Toothache
• Hope Abandoned
• The City's Ways
• The Dying
• Time's Rule
• A Familiar Face
• The Calm
• Strange People
• The Happiest Life
• The Primrose
• The Homeless Man
• Violet to the Bee
• In June
• The End of Summer
• One we Love
• Saturday Night in the Slums
• April
• Whiskey
• A Safe Estate
• The Distinction
• The Lament of Age

Nature Poems (1908)

• The Rain
• A Life's Love
• Robin Redbreast
• The Wind
• Jenny
• Nature's Friend
• A Maiden and Hair
• Early Morn
• The Battle
• The Moth
• Day's Black Star
• A Richer Freight
• School's Out
• A Happy Life
• Joy and Pleasure
• Truly Great
• The Laughers
• Australian Bill
• The Boy
• A Lovely Woman
• Money
• Where we Differ
• The Daisy
• The Sea
• Waiting

• A Beggar's Life
• A Familiar Voice
• A Luckless Pair
• A Merry Hour
• A Summer's Noon
• A Swallow that flew into the room
• A Vagrant's Life
• Beauty's Danger
• Childhood's Hours
• City and Country
• Dead Born
• Go, Angry One
• In Days Gone
• In the Wood
• Life
• Love's Birth
• March
• Nature's Moods
• Solitude
• Sweet Music
• Sweet Youth
• The Change
• The Cheat
• The Milkmaid's Call
• The Muse
• The One Real Gem
• The Sweetest Dream
• The Thieves
• The Trickster
• The Two Lives
• To a Butterfly
• Tyrants
• Vain Beauty
• When I Returned

Farewell to Poesy (1910)

• Farewell to Poesy
• The Dark Hour
• Jenny Wren
• The Milkmaid's Song
• The Idiot and the Child
• A Month Ago
• The Trusting Young
• Now
• Rose
• The Green Tent
• Selfish Hearts
• To The Wind At Morn
• No Master
• The Dumb World (1910)
• On the Death of a little Child
• The Poppy
• Knitting
• Clouds
• In The Country
• The Kingfisher
• An Old House in London
• Scotty's Luck
• Happy Wind
• The Sluggard
• The House Builder
• Old Ragan
• On Expecting some Books
• To A Flirt
• The Sailor to his Parrot
• Angry
• The Call of the Sea
• Come, Honest Boys
• To the New Year
• The Philosophical Beggar
• Fancy
• Death's Game
• Time's Justice

Songs of Joy (1911)

• Songs of Joy
• The Example
• In May
• The Flood
• Leisure
• Fancy's Home
• Sheep
• Days that have Been
• Days too Short
• The Power of Music
• Christ, the Man
• Ingratitude
• The Posts
• Rich Or Poor
• The Harvest Home
• Seeking Beauty
• The Owl
• The East in Gold
• Sadness and Joy
• To Sparrows Fighting
• The Happy Child
• The Two Flocks
• A Dream
• The Elements
• The Heap of Rags
• The Quarrel
• Fairies, Take Care
• The Doubtful One
• The Little Ones
• Shopping
• The Sleepers
• The Bed-sitting-room
• The Child and the Mariner

• A Mother's Science
• A Woman's Glory
• Beauty's Bait
• Beauty's Revenge
• Captives
• Circumstance
• Dreaming Of Death
• In The Wood
• Love and Immortality
• Love's Happiness
• Love's Power
• Man
• O Happy Blackbird
• Self-Love
• Slum Children
• Sound and Grace
• The Grey-Haired Child
• The Little Man
• The Stars At Work
• The Temper Of A Maid
• The Winged Flower
• To A Bore
• To A Rich Lady
• To A Working Man
• Treasures
• War

Foliage (1913)

• Thunderstorms
• Strong Moments
• A Greeting
• Sweet Stay-at-Home
• The Starved
• A May Morning
• The Lonely Dreamer
• Christmas
• Laughing Rose
• Seeking Joy
• The Old Oak Tree
• Poor Kings
• Love and the Muse
• My Youth
• Smiles
• Mad Poll
• Joy Supreme
• Francis Thompson
• The Bird-Man
• Winter's Beauty
• The Church Organ
• Heigh Ho, the Rain
• Love's Inspiration
• Night Wanderers
• Young Beauty
• Who I know
• Sweet Birds, I Come
• The Two Lives
• Hidden Love
• Life is Jolly
• The Fog
• A Woman's Charms
• Dreams of the Sea
• The Wonder Maker
• The Helpless
• An Early Love
• Dream Tragedies
• Children at Play
• When the Cuckoo Sings
• Return to Nature
• A Strange City

The Bird of Paradise (1914)

• When I am Old
• Two Spring Songs
  • From France
  • Starers
• The Best Friend
• Heaven
• Sweet Night
• Early Spring
• The Mind's Liberty
• The Two Spirits
• When on a Summer's Morn
• Again I Sing
• The Dumb World (1914)
• The Weeping Child
• The Den
• This World
• A Fleeting Passion
• Plants and Men
• A Midsummer Night's Storm
• The Dreaming Boy
• The Hawk
• The Signs
• The Long Sleep
• The Moon
• A Great Time
• Her Absence
• The Wanderer
• The Child and the Man
• The Black Cloud
• When I in Praise
• Sweet Child
• In a Garden
• The Life Divine
• Love's Youth
• Rich Days
• Near a Quiet Stream
• The Child Chatters
• The Hermit
• In the End
• The Emigrant
• The Collier's Wife
• Stars
• Come, Let Me Close
• On the Mountain
• Infancy
• In Silent Groves
• The Rev. Ebenezer Paul
• Nell Barnes
• The Bird of Paradise

Child Lovers (1916)

• The Inexpressible
• This Night
• The Visitor
• April's Charms
• Kitty and I
• Thou Comest, May
• The Hospital Waiting-Room
• The White Cascade
• The One Singer
• The Inquest
• The Two Children
• Come, thou sweet Wonder
• Charms
• Friends
• The Power of Silence
• A Mother to her Sick Child
• The White Monster
• Child Lovers
• Body and Spirit

Forty New Poems (1918)

• Raptures
• The Voice
• Confession
• Easter
• My Love could Walk
• My Old Acquaintance
• A Winter's Night
• Birds
• Jove Warns Us
• The Excuse
• In the Snow
• Molly
• Killed in Action
• Lovely Dames
• Cowslips and Larks
• Forgiveness
• That Day She Seized
• The Bell
• A Strange Meeting
• When Yon Full Moon
• Till I Went Out
• The Soul's Companions
• The Holly on the Wall
• Exalted Flower
• What Thoughts are Mine
• Angel and Mystery
• They're Taxing Ale again
• In Time of War
• England
• Come, let us Find
• The Birds of Steel
• Rags and Bones
• The Dancer
• On hearing Mrs. Woodhouse play the Harpsichord
• Late Singers

• Brothers
• How Late
• Passion's Greed
• The Girl is Mad
• The Shameless One
• To My Thoughts
• We Arm to Fight

A Poet's Pilgrimage (1918)

• The Start
• Old Sailors
• The Lost Sex
• In Neath Valley
• The Blind Boxer
• Old Acquaintance
• I am the Poet Davies, William
• The Moon and a Cloud
• The Hunt

Collected Poems (1916)

• No Idle Gold

The Song of Life (1920)

• Oh, Sweet Content!
• The Villain
• Love Speechless
• The Dog
• The Rat
• The Cat
• To-day
• How Kind is Sleep
• The Force of Love
• When Leaves Begin
• Passion's Hounds
• Love Impeached
• The Truth
• The Coming of Peace
• April's Lambs
• The Coming of Spring
• A Song
• Love's Caution
• Trees
• What County?
• A Child's Pet
• The Flirt
• The Captive Lion
• The Clock
• A Bird's Anger
• Bird and Brook
• One Thing Wanting
• The Mint
• Worm-Proof
• Comfort
• Her Mouth and Mine
• Let Me Confess
• Love's Silent Hour
• Now That She Gives
• You Interfering Ladies
• The Song of Life

True Travellers (1923)

• I Could not Love Him More
• See how the Glow-worm's Light
• A Chant
• Beggar's Song
• On What Sweet Banks
• Drinking Song
• Around that Waist
• Her Body's a Fine House
• Oh for a Glass of Wine!
• The Woods and Banks of England now
• Without Contentment, what is Life?
• When Autumn's Fruit
• Now That The Tears
• The World May Charge
• Where She is Now
• Men that have Strength
• Night is the only Time I Live
• When Diamonds, Nibbling in my Ears
• With thy Strong Tide of Beauty
• Who Bears in Mind

The Hour of Magic (1922)

• The Hour of Magic
• The Beautiful
• Impudence
• Wasted Hours
• Two Women
• Pastures
• Her Merriment
• Joy
• Lamorna Cove
• Wild Oats
• The Grief of Others
• The Portrait
• A Thought
• Our Sussex Downs
• Telling Fortunes
• The Collar
• To a Fool
• Strength
• To Bacchus
• A Woman's History
• The Trance

Secrets (1924)

• The Poet's Horse
• The Rainbow
• Love, Like a Drop of Dew
• The Nature Lover
• One Token
• Rogues
• Leaves
• At Night
• The Pond
• See Where Young Love
• A Miracle
• The Rivals
• Earth Love
• Love's Payment
• In Spring-time
• My Garden
• The Schemes of Love
• The Meadow
• Cant
• The Trick
• Breath
• The Cave
• The World Approves
• Down Underground
• The Fear
• The Fates
• The Two Stars
• The Rabbit
• To a Lady Friend
• The Two Heavens
• The Doll
• The Snowflake
• Secrets
• Our Longer Life
• When Love Is Young
• Dust
• Pity
• The Joy of Life
• Violet and Oak
• Evil

A Poet's Alphabet (1925)

• A is for Artist
• B is for Beauty
• C is for Child
• D is for Dog
• E is for Eyes
• F is for Fiddles
• G is for Garden
• H is for Hedge
• I is for Implements
• J is for Jealousy
• K is for Kings
• L is for Light
• M is for Mother
• N is for Nature
• O is for Open
• P is for Pool
• Q is for Question
• R is for Remembrance
• S is for Swimmer
• T is for Time
• U is for Union
• V is for Venus
• W is for Will
• X is for Expecting
• Y is for Youth
• Z is for Zany

Later Days (1925)

• The Rock
• The Poet
• A Lonely Coast
• The Perfect Life
• The Two Loves
• No-man's Wood
• Come Away, Death
• One Night, when I was Sleeping
• The Life of Man
• Traffic
• The Bust
• How Sordid is this Crowded Life
• The Treasured Three

The Song of Love (1926)

• The Song of Love

A Poet's Calendar (1927)

• The Time of Dreams
• Frost
• Mad
• One by One
• Hill and Vale
• The White Horse
• The Mask
• Giants
• Advice
• The Spoiler
• Storms
• Property
• Sun, Tree and Crow
• Shooting-Stars
• A Dull Spirit
• The Dragonfly
• Light and Darkness
• The Evening Star
• Old or Young
• An Epitaph
• Sport
• Winter Fire
• To a Contemporary
• Peace and Goodwill

Ambition (1929)

• Friends Unborn
• The Richest Stones
• This Bantam Star
• If Love Survives
• Hand or Mouth
• Ambition
• For Sale
• Birthdays
• Uncertainty
• Charity
• A Dream Of Winter
• A Child's Fancy
• Wild Blossoms
• A Silver Wonder
• Peace and Rest
• Moss and Feather
• Pot and Kettle
• Eyes and Ears
• The Blest
• The Idiot
• Letters
• Day or Night
• Hunting Joy
• A Young Thrush
• Born of Tears
• Heaven and Earth
• In Winter
• My Life's Example

Poems 1930-1931 (1932)

• When and Where
• Silver Hours
• Here Am I
• Flowers
• Mangers
• Ships and Stars
• Starlings
• Poison
• A Prayer
• Old Friends
• Wonderful Places
• What Light?
• Old Autumn
• Trails
• The Poor
• No Careless Mind
• A Fleeting Wonder
• Kiss and Blow
• The Visitor
• The Chase
• Age and Youth
• The Prayer of Daft Harry
• A Sweeter Life
• Epitaph on John Keats
• Epitaph on a Child
• Come, Melancholy
• Jewels
• The Legacy
• Clocks
• A Child's Mint
• The World Dictates
• The Enemy
• The Lady of Light
• Playmates
• Sick Minds
• Bird and Cloud
• Ourselves
• The Mourner
• Loyalty
• No Place or Time

My Birds (1933)

• Dreamers
• Wild Creatures
• Aye
• Magpies
• A Dog's Grave
• Dogs
• On Finding a Dead Bird Under My Window
• Crumbs and Guineas
• Voices of Scorn
• One Poet Visits Another
• My Rockery
• To Play Alone
• Flying Blossoms
• A Bright Day
• Breast to Breast
• The Cuckoo
• Owls
• Old and Crazy

My Garden (1933)

• Little Flower
• Drink
• Eyes
• On a Cold Day
• The Dead
• The River Severn
• The Bee Lover
• A Lovely Day
• Bells
• Beggar's Luck
• The Vagabond
• Sound and Light
• The Man of Moods
• Logic
• Compensation
• Bewitched

Love Poems (1935)

• Seed and Flower
• The Little Devil
• When We Forget
• Love and Money
• Where We Agree
• Brother Gods
• Spirits and Bodies
• Regret
• To-morrow
• To-night
• Married Couples
• The Laws of Beauty
• This Green Orchard
• Love Lights His Fire
• Past and Present
• Love Ten Years Old
• True or Fickle
• Alone
• The Shadow
• Love's Rivals
• A Foolish Tongue
• Faults
• Competitors
• Fortunes
• Great Lovers
• Let Love Live On
• The Ghost
• Pecking
• Words and Kisses
• Good and Evil
• The Peacemaker
• The Supper
• Marvellous Ears
• Beauty and Song
• Three Score and Ten
• Let us Lie Close
• Light and Darkness (ii)
• Stings
• Last Thoughts
• A Lullaby of Rest
• Beauty and Brain
• The Tyrants
• Three Loves
• His Throne
• Flirting
• The Jealous Lover
• Love Me No More
• The Faithful One
• Eardrops
• The Players

The Birth of Song (1936)

• The Birth Of Song
• Man
• This is a Joy
• All's Well
• A New World
• Street Criers
• Scandal
• Love in Trouble
• Tell Me, World, and Tell Me, Nature
• The Conquerors
• Catching the Devil
• Named
• The Witness
• The Age of Gold
• The Mongrel
• The Lily of Our Valley
• Combing
• Song of the Miners
• Father and Son
• Good Friends
• To W.S. - On his Wonderful Toys
• Broken Hearts
• Success
• Rich Companions

The Loneliest Mountain (1939)

• The Loneliest Mountain
• Pride and Humility
• The Load Of Pearls
• Taking Stock
• Worms
• Silent Eyes
• The Deed
• A Cat's Example
• Trust
• Common Joys
• Speed
• Armed For War
• The Tugged Hand
• Days and Years
• Following a Bee
• Woman
• The Last Years
• All in June
• Men that Think
• The Dead Tree
• Music's Tragedy
• The Worms' Contempt
• Life
• Nailsworth Hill
• A Change of Voice
• Slippers
• Looks
• The Mind Speaks
• That Golden Time

English autobiography

• The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

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