Welsh History (R S Thomas Poems)
We were a people taut for war; the hillsWere no harder, the thin grassClothed them more warmly than the coarseShirts ...
We were a people taut for war; the hillsWere no harder, the thin grassClothed them more warmly than the coarseShirts ...
CLOSER than my body's shadowFollows the blind nameless One,Carrying in his tightened, yellow fistTime, the thin sputtering candle,And in his ...
_AEschylus_--And by Jove, I'll not stop to cut up your verses word by ...
By the Nile, the sacred river,I can see the captive hordes,Strain beneath the lash and quiverAt the long papyrus cords,While ...
Though with an angel's tongue I set on fire the congregations all, 'Tis but a brazen bell that I have ...
'TIS not when I am here,In these homeless homes,Where sin and shame and diseaseAnd foul death comes;'Tis not when heart ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Declaiming Waters none may dread -- But Waters that are still Are so for that most fatal cause In Nature ...
I, proclaiming that there is Among birds or beasts or men One that is perfect or at peace. Danced on ...
We lack all knowledge of this parting. Death does not deal with us. We have no reason to show death ...
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