After Rain (Edward Thomas Poems)
The rain of a night and a day and a nightStops at the lightOf this pale choked day. The peering ...
Edward Thomas Poems (123 Poems)
Lob (Edward Thomas Poems)
At hawthorn-time in Wiltshire travellingIn search of something chance would never bring,An old man's face, by life and weather cutAnd ...
The Other (Edward Thomas Poems)
The forest ended. Glad I wasTo feel the light, and hear the humOf bees, and smell the drying grassAnd the ...
The Chalk-Pit (Edward Thomas Poems)
Is this the road that climbs above and bendsRound what was once a chalk-pit: now it isBy accident an amphitheatre.Some ...
Man and Dog (Edward Thomas Poems)
''Twill take some getting.' 'Sir, I think 'twill so.' The old man stared up at the mistletoe That hung too ...
Haymaking (Edward Thomas Poems)
After night's thunder far away had rolledThe fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold,And in the perfect blue the ...
Health (Edward Thomas Poems)
Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land,To the frosted steep of the down and its junipers black,Travels ...
Old Man (Edward Thomas Poems)
Old Man, or Lads-Love, - in the name there's nothingTo one that knows not Lads-Love, or Old Man, The hoar ...
Home 2 (Edward Thomas Poems)
Fair was the morning, fair our tempers, andWe had seen nothing fairer than that land,Though strange, and the untrodden snow ...
As the Team’s Head- Brass (Edward Thomas Poems)
As the team's head-brass flashed out on the turnThe lovers disappeared into the wood.I sat among the boughs of the ...
The Gypsy (Edward Thomas Poems)
A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere:Vans were drawn up on wastes, women trailed to the fair.'My gentleman,' said one, ...
The Glory (Edward Thomas Poems)
The glory of the beauty of the morning, -The cuckoo crying over the untouched dew;The blackbird that has found it, ...
The Sign-Post (Edward Thomas Poems)
The dim sea glints chill. The white sun is shy,And the skeleton weeds and the never-dry,Rough, long grasses keep white ...
Words (Edward Thomas Poems)
Out of us all That make rhymes Will you choose Sometimes - As the winds use A crack in a ...
If I were to Own (Edward Thomas Poems)
f I were to own this countrysideAs far as a man in a day could ride,And the Tyes were mine ...
Liberty (Edward Thomas Poems)
The last light has gone out of the world, exceptThis moonlight lying on the grass like frostBeyond the brink of ...
Ambition (Edward Thomas Poems)
Unless it was that day I never knewAmbition. After a night of frost, beforeThe March sun brightened and the South-west ...
The Child on the Cliffs (Edward Thomas Poems)
Mother, the root of this little yellow flowerAmong the stones has the taste of quinine.Things are strange to-day on the ...
Aspens (Edward Thomas Poems)
All day and night, save winter, every weather,Above the inn, the smithy and the shop, The aspens at the cross-roads ...
The Manor Farm (Edward Thomas Poems)
The rock-like mud unfroze a little, and rills Ran and sparkled down each side of the road Under the catkins ...
The Child in the Orchard (Edward Thomas Poems)
'He rolls in the orchard: he is stained with mossAnd with earth, the solitary old white horse.Where is his father ...
This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong (Edward Thomas Poems)
This is no case of petty right or wrongThat politicians or philosophersCan judge. I hate not Germans, nor grow hotWith ...
October (Edward Thomas Poems)
The green elm with the one great bough of gold Lets leaves into the grass slip, one by ...
The Gallows (Edward Thomas Poems)
There was a weasel lived in the sunWith all his family,Till a keeper shot him with his gunAnd hung him ...
The Barn (Edward Thomas Poems)
They should never have built a barn there, at all -Drip, drip, drip! - under that elm tree,Though when it ...
The Path (Edward Thomas Poems)
Running along a bank, a parapet That saves from the precipitous wood below The level road, there is a path. ...
The Word (Edward Thomas Poems)
There are so many things I have forgot, That once were much to me, or that were not, All lost, ...
Celandine (Edward Thomas Poems)
Thinking of her had saddened me at first,Until I saw the sun on the celandines lieRedoubled, and she stood up ...
No One So Much As You (Edward Thomas Poems)
No one so much as youLoves this my clay, Or would lament as youIts dying day. You know me through ...
The Lofty Sky (Edward Thomas Poems)
To-day I want the sky,The tops of the high hills,Above the last man's house,His hedges, and his cows,Where, if I ...