DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY (1871— ), British poet, born at Newport, Monmouth, April 20, 1871. After serving as apprentice to a picture-frame maker he tramped through America, crossed the Atlantic many times on cattle boats, became a pedlar and street singer in England, and after eight years of this life published his first volume of poems, The Soul's Destroyer, from the Marshalsea prison. Next year appeared in prose The Auto biography of a Super-Tramp (1908) with a preface by G. Bernard Shaw, and also Nature Poems and Others. Collected editions of his poems appeared in 1916 and 1924. His poetry includes: Forty New Poems (1918) ; The Hour of Magic, and Other Poems (1922); A Poet's Alphabet (1925); The Song of Love (1926). He also published a novel, A Weak Woman (1911), and volumes of nature studies and essays, including A Poet's Pilgrimage (1918) , Later Days (1925) and The Adventures of Johnny Walker Tramp (1926) ; Collected Poems of W. H. Davies (1929).