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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE TEN YEARS OLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: Our love this day is ten years old
Last Line: And knows the man is old and blind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age
First Line: Our love this day is ten years old
Last Line: And knows the man is old and blind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age
Our love this day is ten years old.
What thoughts are in my sweetheart's mind?
'A kinder, sweeter tempered man,'
Says she, 'no woman could ever find.'
What says the World, that knows me less,
And judged me of another kind —
That robs a poor man of his dog,
And knows the man is old and blind!
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