One hour in every hundred hours
I sing of childhood, birds and flowers;
Who reads my character in song
Will not see much in me that's wrong.
But in my ninety hours and nine
I would not tell what thoughts are mine:
They're not so pure as find their words
In songs of childhood, flowers and birds.
First printed in 'Form' in April 1917.
First published in 'Raptures' in 1918 by Beaumont Press.
It was also published in 'Forty New Poems' in 1918 by AC Fifield.
Also in 'The Captive Lion' in 1921 by Yale University Press.
Included in 'Georgian Poetry' selected by James Reeves in 1962 for Penguin Books.
No current comment
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These are my own selection of Davies' poems - most of which are used in the screenplay
These are Davies published collections. They are viewable in an epub format where possible.
Raptures 1918
Secrets 1924
A Poet's Alphabet 1925
The Song of Love 1926
A Poet's Calendar 1927
Ambition 1929
My Birds 1933
My Garden 1933
The Lovers' Song-Book 1933
Love Poems 1935
The Birth of Song 1936
The Loneliest Mountain 1939
Chapter V - A Tramp's Summer Vacation
Chapter V111 - A Prisoner his own Judge
Chapter X - The Cattleman's Office
ChapterX1 - A Strange Cattleman
Chapter X1X - A Voice in the Dark
Chapter XX1V - On the Downright
Chapter XXV1 - Rain and Poverty
Chapter XXV111 - On Tramp Again
Chapter XX1X - A Day's Companion
Beggars
can be read in epub version
A Weak Woman
can be read in epub version
A Poet's Pilgrimage
can be read online here
True Travellers - A Tramp's Opera
Later Days
can be read online here
The Adventures of Johnny Walker
Young Emma
Not yet available
Preface to Autobiography by GB Shaw
Osbert Sitwell
David Garnett
Helen Thomas
Poetry Wales
Jonathan Cape
Stonesifer
Thomas Moult - untitled book about him
Lawrence Normand
Barbara Hooper
Sylvia Harlow - W.H. Davies - A Bibliography
Currently unwritten.
The wikipedia bio is the best I know of online.
Currently unwritten.
Early Childhood
Teenage years
Twenties
Losing his leg
Currently unwritten.
London dosshouses
After first publication
Autobiography of a Supertramp
Sevenoaks
London
Meeting Helen Payne
Currently unwritten.
Around London
Nailsworth - Gloucestershire
Overview - not yet available
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