Phrase by 'W. H. Davies'

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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Life , Time , Care , Stand


There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Simple , Good , America , American


How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Down , Security , Small , Autumn


Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Time , Black , Father , Mother


Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Man , Alone , Road , Childhood


It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet


It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Me , Sometimes , Mind , Thoughts


The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Help , Person , Garden , Gardening


Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Men , Drink , Sympathy , Generosity


It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.

Author: W. H. Davies - Welsh Poet
  Me , Time , Men , Power


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