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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PASTURES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: That grass is tender, soft and sweet
Last Line: Lie down to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas
First Line: That grass is tender, soft and sweet
Last Line: Lie down to sleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas
THAT grass is tender, soft and sweet,
And well you young lambs know't:
I know a pasture twice as sweet,
Although I may not show't;
Where my five fingers go each night
To nibble, like you sheep,
All over my love's breast, and there
Lie down to sleep.
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