Stings (Davies)

Stings written by William Henry Davies

From "Love Poems" (1935)

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 Though bees have stings, I doubt if any bee
 Has ever stung a flower in all his life:
 Neither, my love, can I think ill of you,
 Though half the world and I may be at strife.
 
 Can I forget your coming, like the Moon
 When, robed in light, alone, without a star,
 She visits ruins; and the peace you brought,
 When I with all the world was still at war.

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