Great Regulars: "School's Out" may have been Alice Cooper's

first big hit single but did you know it's also the title of a poem by a Welsh poet born in 1871? If you left school a few decades ago, you're probably more familiar with the poet as the author of "Leisure", with its famous opening couplet: "What is this life if, full of care,/We have no time to stand and stare." No doubt "Leisure" was once, for many young people, their first encounter with printed poetry. The author, of course, is William Henry Davies, sometimes nicknamed "the tramp poet".

from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: School's Out by W.H. Davies

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