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THE POND by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Poet Analysis

First Line: SO INNOCENT, SO QUIET - YET
Last Line: IS THAT DEAD WOMAN'S UPTURNED FACE.
Subject(s): DROWNING; LAKES; POOLS; PONDS;
So innocent, so quiet -- yet
That glitter in the water's eye
Has some strange meaning there, I fear;
Did waves run wild and butt this bank
With their curled horns, when it happened here!

Beneath these heart-shaped lily-leaves,
In water, lies a broken heart:
And one white lily in this place --
In this deep, silent, leaf-bound pond --
Is that dead woman's upturned face.



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