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William Henry Davies est un poète et écrivain gallois. Né le 3 juillet 1871 à Newport dans le Monmouthshire, il meurt le 26 septembre 1940. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. juillet 1871 – 26. septembre 1940
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William Henry Davies: 15 citations0 J'aime

William Henry Davies: Citations en anglais

“Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content,
Thou knowest of no strange continent;
Thou hast not felt thy bosom keep
A gentle motion with the deep;
Thou hast not sailed in Indian seas,
Where scent comes forth in every breeze.”

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William Henry Davies

Sweet Stay-at-Home.

“They sniffed, poor things, for their green fields,
They cried so loud I could not sleep:
For fifty thousand shillings down
I would not sail again with sheep.”

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Sheep.

“The collier's wife had four tall sons
Brought from the pit's mouth dead,
And crushed from foot to head”

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The Collier's Wife.

“No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.”

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Leisure

“I also love a quiet place
That's green, away from all mankind;
A lonely pool, and let a tree
Sigh with her bosom over me.”

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William Henry Davies

The Kingfisher

“What sweet, what happy days had I,
When dreams made Time Eternity!”

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The Time of Dreams.

“Autumn grows old: he, like some simple one,
In Summer's castaway is strangely clad”

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Autumn.

“Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp,
Let's grimly kiss with bated breath;
As quietly and solemnly
As Life when it is kissing Death.”

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A Fleeting Passion.

“It was the Rainbow gave thee birth,
And left thee all her lovely hues.”

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The Kingfisher

“Go you and, with such glorious hues,
Live with proud peacocks in green parks.”

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The Kingfisher

“Cats — by day the most docile of God's creatures, everyone of them in the night enlisting under the devil's banner — took the place by storm after the human voice had ceased.”

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William Henry Davies livre The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XXV

“People are not to be blamed for their doubts, but that they make no effort to arrive at the truth.”

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William Henry Davies livre The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Source: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XXXIV

“What a glorious time of the year is this [Spring]! With the warm sun travelling through serene skies, the air clear and fresh above you, which instils new blood in the body, making one defiantly tramp the earth, kicking the snows aside in the scorn of action.”

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William Henry Davies livre The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Source: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XIX

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