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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)