Philosophically, no other single poem can be said to form the basis of so much of his poetry. "But he went to school with Wordsworth's sonnet "The world is too much with us", and echoes from that sonnet resound throughout his work as from few other poems. Stonesifer traces the origins of the poem back to the sonnet " The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth, saying: In his 1963 Critical Biography of Davies, Richard J. It warns that "the hectic pace of modern life has a detrimental effect on the human spirit." Modern man has no time to spend free time in the lap of nature. Background Īlthough it was to become Davies' best-known poem, it was not included in any of the five Georgian Poetry anthologies published by Edward Marsh between 19. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. The poem is written as a set of seven rhyming couplets. Fifield and then in Davies' first anthology Collected Poems by the same publisher in 1916. Davies, appearing originally in his Songs Of Joy and Others, published in 1911 by A.
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