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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: THOMAS, EDWARD (1878-1917) Matches Found: 85 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADLESTROP, by HARDIMAN SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Yes. I remember adlestrop Last Line: And mine oculd have been added meaning to %the singing birds in adlestrop Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ADLESTROP 1987, by ALAN CHARLES BROWNJOHN Poem Source First Line: The name, as I drove west that day Last Line: Rumour in all those covered nests %of oxfordshire and gloucestershire Subject(s): Adlestrop, England; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ADLESTROP REVISITED, by WILLIAM COOKE Poem Source First Line: Adlestrop 3/4. A short drive off the hot road Last Line: Sixty years on, no trains stop, no one notices %the place. And no more singing for the bird Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War ALL DAY IT HAS RAINED, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day it has rained, and we on the edge of the moors Last Line: On death and beauty -- till a bullet stopped his song Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); War APRIL, 1917, SELS., by VIVIAN LOCKE ELLIS Poem Source First Line: I see him on our threshold stand again Last Line: Go we with thee, such ghosts as we appear, %and not the cold companions of the tomb Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) AT AGNY, by SEAN STREET Poem Source First Line: In perfect lines, the white stone flowers grow Last Line: To be a part of this, as would the way %the old man watches over you today Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) AT STEEP, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: I came to steep on a summer's day and looked Last Line: And look across the unchanged land; to make %in troubled prescience, a modest third Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) AT THE GRAVE OF EDWARD THOMAS, by DAVID HUGHES Poem Source First Line: Many maps have led me here, many books brought me Last Line: From beaurians, almost unmarked. This feels like coming %home; and as I sense it, fresh drops start Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) COUNTRY 1976, by JAN MARSH Poem Source First Line: It was the hot summer. Driving by fields Last Line: Eased, we trudged mutely back to the lane %thirsty and anxious, like the land, for relief Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) DEAD POET, by TERENCE IAN FYTTON ARMSTRONG Poem Source First Line: When rime was on the road & ditches glistened Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 11. TO EDWARD THOMAS, WITH A PLAY, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within your roman house Last Line: Let them to yours be bidden. Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) DESIRE, by LEONARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: What can I say Last Line: Among %these hills of home, what you %left unsung Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) DO YOU REMEMBER ADLESTROP?, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Someone, somewhere, must have asked that question - robert Last Line: Not even sure if I've ever been there - %'no, I don't remember' Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EASTER MONDAY, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the last letter that I had from france Last Line: There are three letters you will not get Variant Title(s): Second Love: 4 Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I EDWARD EASTAWAY, by JOHN JENKINS Poem Source First Line: I miss thee in the dim and silent woods Last Line: For one. I turn toward set of sun, since thou %hast journeyed west, dear edward eastaway Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS, by BASIL DOWLING Poem Source First Line: His verses make me think of blackbird calls Last Line: Hayfields in june, or ploughing in october, %as wholesome as the earth is, and as sober Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some poets are for ever linked Last Line: And wonderful for weightless weight %and actual enjoyment! Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This violing poet did not raise his voice Last Line: Yet he was a poet able to rejoice Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: Out of the woods he came; %from some green world his other life began Last Line: Perceiving truth in beauty hidden away %in a wren's egg, rain, and dust on a nettle flower Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS, by JEAN KENWARD Poem Source First Line: They found him a stoical, solitary man Last Line: He shrugged them off, and so, departing, found %the ultimate freedom - death, in an alien land Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS IN HEAVEN, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: Edward, with thinning hair and hooded eyes Last Line: And angels of breconshire and hereford %sing for them, and I nimaginable edward? Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS IN SURINDERS, by ELIZABETH+(2) BARTLETT Poem Source First Line: Why am I sitting here? Last Line: I hew at my seam of words %in the only way I know Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS MEMORIAL, by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Because a young man, petulant and young Last Line: Panting for breath, mopping sweat off my brow, %thinking of my first editions and of his spilled blo Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS WALKING, by ARNOLD RATTENBURY Poem Source First Line: Much country is flat Last Line: Immediate footloose poems change %and are huge as lofty political vision is Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS'S WAR DIARY, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One night in the trenches Last Line: A piece of burnt paper Subject(s): Diaries; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EDWARD THOMAS: KILLED IN ACTION 1917, by J. H. B. PEEL Poem Source First Line: The gods half-loved you, for your death occurred Last Line: Old age would not have suited you at all; %the dice were kin the d and threw your early fall Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ELEGY FOR EDWARD THOMAS, SELS., by CHARLES WILLIAM DALMON Poem Source First Line: Somewhere within my brain is set Last Line: And that which was can never end %while memories last, my gentle friend Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ENVOY, by PETER WALTON Poem Source First Line: I like to think you watched a swift once more Last Line: Mud, that swift - in the blue of your clear mind's eye: %a lonely enoy, heading for england Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) EPITAPH FOR EDWARD THOMAS, by JULIAN ABRAHAM Poem Source First Line: From each casement Last Line: When icicles hung by %the wall, bore logs in Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) FOR EDWARD THOMAS, by ROLAND GANT Poem Source First Line: All too much, by far too much Last Line: Who strive to follow and find- %with him - nothing like the sun Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) FOR EDWARD THOMAS, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: I have looked about for you many times Last Line: Upon cool suns, your words the play %of stars with water, your dark - mine Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) FOR EDWARD THOMAS KILLED AT ARRAS, by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: If you came dancing back Last Line: Or tell each other why the world must walk %down this dark avenue, nameless, without end Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) GARLAND FOR EDWARD THOMAS, by BRIAN JONES Poem Source First Line: There will always be woods, and from their brink Last Line: An eye that scanned dark, and distinguished plants, %an honesty that shirked a specious noise Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) GLASS WINDOW, IN MEMORY OF EDWARD THOMAS AT EASTBURY CHURCH, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: Road lay in moistening valleys, lanes Last Line: Suddenly I feel the known world shaken %by gunfire, by glassbreaking. In comes the night Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) GLIMPSE, by TERESA HOOLEY Poem Source First Line: A dartmoor room; %twilight in spring Last Line: Beauty, a-wing, %brushed me and vanished %as vanishes spring Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) GOLDEN ROOM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember the still summer evening Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) GOOD VIBES, by PETER PORTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you hadn't noticed the umprominent sign Last Line: Persons. To have trod on ground in happiness %is to be shaken by the true immortals Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) GRAVELY THEN, by LOREN EISELEY Poem Source First Line: Gravely then, for he was a grave man, edward thomas rose Last Line: Fishing in fishless pools is often done, but not so well by boys Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) HELEN THOMAS VISITS IVOR GURNEY IN THE ASYLUM, by MATT SIMPSON Poem Source First Line: Here's a map of dead friend tramped Last Line: Lines wandering everywhere and nowhere %through shell-shocked gloucestershire Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) HOMAGE TO EDWARD THOMAS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Formal, informal, by a country's cast Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) HOMAGE TO EDWARD THOMAS, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Formal, informal, by a country's cast Last Line: Harden in their indifference, like this elm. Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ICKNIELD WAY, by ROBERT WELLS Poem Source First Line: He wakes to the sky's first pallot Last Line: By the path. At his shouler %he carries its weight of green Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IMAGINATIVE FRANCHISE, by JOHN LOVEDAY Poem Source First Line: Does it matter, whether yeats really stood Last Line: Does it have to be true? Suppose the train did not pull %up at adlestrop at all Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IN MEMORIAM: EDWARD THOMAS, by JULIAN THOMAS Poem Source First Line: No more can I love spring though cuckoo's here Last Line: In quest of something we were not to find. %perhaps another world has proved more kind Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IN MEMORY OF EDWARD THOMAS, 1878-1917, by DAVID SUTTON Poem Source First Line: Between your pages so much lost was found Last Line: A winter grief that quickened long ago. %tonight I listen and the spring winds blow Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IN REMEMBRANCE OF EDWARD THOMAS, by KEITH SPENCER Poem Source First Line: And you edward thomas Last Line: Its transient beauty on the eye %evoking the vision %which once fired you too Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) INSTEAD OF HIS VOICE, by JAMES GUTHRIE Poem Source First Line: Instead of the voice of my friend Last Line: The silence, as though for his sake, %there were songs in the place of tears Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IRIS BY NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: One misty evening, one another's guide Last Line: In a relation of elected friends Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) IRIS BY NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One misty evening, one another's guide Last Line: From all division time or foe can bring %in a relation of elected friends Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) KILLED IN ACTION, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man whose home is still Last Line: And never left it once before. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) LANDSCAPE FOR EDWARD THOMAS, by ANDREW WATERMAN Poem Source First Line: Journeying often across the heart of england Last Line: Inhuman harmonies through a bird's song, %seeking beyond where it could last turn back Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) LATTERMATH, by TOM DURHAM Poem Source First Line: We live through you, and I Last Line: As man, as bird, as tree, %until death pressed the flower Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) LISTENERS, by NEIL ASTLEY Poem Source First Line: And clattering down the iron-hard lane Last Line: Your window brushed by snow. I oucld hear %on my pane the same breathless whisper Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) MANGEL-BURY, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was after war; edward thomas had fallen at arras Last Line: Names, rumours. But my pain to more moving called %and him to some barn business far in the fifteen Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) MEMORIAL STONE, by WILLIAM COOKE Poem Source First Line: Here blackbirds rule; they chafe as I press on Last Line: A symbol of strength, simplicty, for other men, %some killed in later wars, some not yet born Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) MOLE, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who bothers to record Last Line: Over the eyes, hands %swimming in the soil? Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) NOT ADLESTROP, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Not adlestrop, no - besides, the name Last Line: As the train gathered atrocious speed %towards oxfordshire or gloucestershire Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) OF STEEP, by JOHN GIBBENS Poem Source First Line: Where a stone faces france Last Line: Far from here. Now a tone faced france, in the haze, where he fell Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ON AN INYANGA ROAD, by NOEL HARRY BRETTELL Poem Source First Line: Up the dark avenue, leading to no end Last Line: Of the world's utmost gable: to sheba's breasts %or mother dunch's buttocks - which? Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) ON BEAUTY, by DOUGLAS VERRALL Poem Source First Line: Some faces blank, other resist with fear Last Line: Intact in death at arras eastertide %lives on in her by teacher's stubborn art Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) PILGRIMAGE, by HUMPHREY CLUCAS Poem Source First Line: He'd be an old man himself now - Last Line: Forbidden to pick. But kept instead a white %violet, perhaps the first of spring Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) PLACE-NAMES, by DAVID SUTTON Poem Source First Line: They are worn and durable Last Line: We scent them on the map %like new-mown grass Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) POETS OF MY COUNTY, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One was a happy serious boy on lands Last Line: By tilleloy keeping spirit in soul with the way %cooper's comes over from eastward, sees rome all th Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) POETS' WAY, by SEAN STREET Poem Source First Line: The red soil colours our walking boots Last Line: While two last friends, these red counties, merge to one, %oblivious, as men who've found each other Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) RANSOMS, by LESLIE NORRIS Poem Source First Line: What the white ransoms did was to wipe away Last Line: But as I flick the key, hear the engine purr, %drive slowly down the hill, I'm conforted Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) REMEMBERED, by J. H. B. PEEL Poem Source First Line: Browsing one day among the books Last Line: Might feel me as now I feel %of him I met at charing cross Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) SECOND LOVE: 41, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that you too must shortly go the way Last Line: But oh, let end what will, I hold you fast %by immortal love, which has no first or last Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); Women; World War I SECOND LOVE: 42, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When we had reached the bottom of the hill Last Line: And parting not so light for you and me %as you and I made it appear to be Subject(s): Love; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) SECOND LOVE: 43, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you had held me in more tenderness Last Line: My spirit singing like a song of praise, %'I might see you in london in three days' Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) SOTTO VOCE; TO EDWARD THOMAS, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The haze of noon wanned silver-grey Last Line: And we are laid abed.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) STEEP TO SELBORNE, by JAN MARSH Poem Source First Line: It was a perfect day Last Line: Eating in the garden %of the village pub Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) STEEP, BY PETERSFIELD, by CHRISTOPHER LEE Poem Source First Line: I woke to that sea-sound Last Line: Children, wild creatures %and gallantry poised between dark and darkness Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TO E. T., by DAVID THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Twenty years ago the young man Last Line: When I take your book down from the shelf %and through familiar pages thumb Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TO E. T.: 1917, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You sleep too well - too far away Last Line: Had wept for you, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War I; First World War TO E.T., by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slumbered with your poems on my breast Last Line: And see you pleased once more with words of mine? Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii; Second World War TO EDWARD THOMAS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way up from sheet I met some children Last Line: Till suddenly, at arras, you possessed that hinted land Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; Thomas, Edward (1878-1917); World War Ii TO EDWARD THOMAS, by PAMELA MIDDLETON MURRAY Poem Source First Line: I love to think this box belonged to you Last Line: To lighten that dark avenue you trod, %and woke to find not endless, after all Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TOOT BALDON, SELECTION, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first we were married Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TOOT BALDON, SELS., by ANDREW MOTION Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first we were married Last Line: Though one we supposed had littered there, %then been drummed back to her yard Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TRULY YOURS, by FRED SEDGWICK Poem Source First Line: Elderflower creams along the bank Last Line: I've none of your poems whole by heart; %smelling on my hand the elderflower Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) TRYING FOR TRUTH, by KIM TAPLIN Poem Source First Line: Strangely enough it's your reviews I value Last Line: Words that were honest, generous and just, %so that in trying for truth you managed love Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) WILLESDEN GREE, by JIMMIE PEARSE Poem Source First Line: Yes, I remember willesden gree Last Line: The nation's heart, benign, immense, %at one, in thrall to 'nationwide' Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) WORDS, by HARDIMAN SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Nearly five hundred years of them Last Line: The great cascade that pronouces %once sentence of complete silence Subject(s): Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) |
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