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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GHOST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: Seek not to know love's full extent Last Line: Confesses to the other's ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love | |||
Seek not to know Love's full extent, For Death, not Life, must measure Love; Not till one lover's dead and gone, Is Love made strong enough to prove. What woman, with a ghostly lover, Can hold a mirror to her hair? A man can tell his love with tears, When but a woman's ghost is there. Our greatest meeting is to come, When either you or I are lost: When one, being left alone in tears, Confesses to the other's ghost. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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