Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE SCORE AND TEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poet Analysis First Line: Ten junes to hear the nightingale Last Line: In ten years' reckoning up, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Wedding Song; Epithalamium | ||||||||
Ten Junes to hear the Nightingale, Ten Aprils for the Cuckoo's coming; And only ten more Februarys, Love, To celebrate our wedding. Come, happier thoughts, and cry 'Good Morrow'! Though we but kiss three times a day, Three hundred days and sixty five, In every year, must come our way! Think how these kisses too will make One thousand and ninety-five a year! And all the thousands that must follow In ten years' reckoning up, my Dear! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POEM FOR A WEDDING by GLYN MAXWELL BRIDAL SONG by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) ESTONIAN BRIDAL SONG by JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER THE SERGEANT'S WEDDIN' by RUDYARD KIPLING THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE EPITHALAMION by EDMUND SPENSER A BIRD'S ANGER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |
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