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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LIKENESS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis
First Line: When I came forth this morn I saw
Last Line: To such white wool, such sparkling grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Clouds; Sheep
First Line: When I came forth this morn I saw
Last Line: To such white wool, such sparkling grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Clouds; Sheep
When I came forth this morn I saw
Quite twenty cloudlets in the air;
And then I saw a flock of sheep,
Which told me how those clouds came there.
That flock of sheep, on that green grass,
Well it might lie so still and proud!
Its likeness had been drawn in heaven,
On a blue sky, in silvery cloud.
I gazed me up, I gazed me down,
And swore, though good the likeness was,
'Twas a long way from justice done
To such white wool, such sparkling grass.
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