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William Watson

I lived from 1858-1935. I was from Great Britain, and am in the English category.

I was influenced by poets John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Sir William Watson (1858 – August 11, 1935), was an English poet, popular in his time for the political content of his verse. He was born at Burley, Wharfedale in Yorkshire.

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  • Three Flowers
    I made a little song about the rose
    And sang it for the rose to hear,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Love's Astrology
    I know not if they erred
    Who thought to see
    12 lines
  • The Empty Nest
    I saunter all about the pleasant place
    You made thrice pleasant, O my friends, to me;
    14 lines
  • "Under the dark and piny steep"
    Under the dark and piny steep
    We watched the storm crash by:
    8 lines
  • England and Her Colonies
    SHE stands, a thousand-wintered tree,
    By countless morns impearled;
    19 lines
  • Song
    APRIL, April,
    Laugh thy girlish laughter;
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Vanishings
    As one whose eyes have watched the stricken day
    Swoon to its crimson death adown the sea,
    14 lines
  • "And These--Are These Indeed The Rnd"
    And these—are these indeed the end,
      This grinning skull, this heavy loam?
    8 lines
  • A Sunset
    Westward a league the city lay, with one
    Cloud's imminent umbrage o'er it: when behold,
    26 lines
  • "Thy voice from Inmost Dreamland Calls"
    Thy voice from inmost dreamland calls;
      The wastes of sleep thou makest fair;
    8 lines
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