First Known when Lost (Edward Thomas Poems)
I never had noticed it until'Twas gone, - the narrow copseWhere now the woodman lopsThe last of the willows with ...
Edward Thomas Poems (123 Poems)
The Trumpet (Edward Thomas Poems)
Rise up, rise up,And, as the trumpet blowingChases the dreams of men,As the dawn glowingThe stars that left unlitThe land ...
The Combe (Edward Thomas Poems)
The Combe was ever dark, ancient and dark.Its mouth is stopped with brambles, thorn, and briar;And no one scrambles over ...
Two Pewits (Edward Thomas Poems)
Under the after-sunset skyTwo pewits sport and cry,More white than is the moon on highRiding the dark surge silently;More black ...
Digging 2 (Edward Thomas Poems)
To-day I thinkOnly with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,And bracken, and wild carrot's seed,And the square mustard field;Odours that ...
As the Clouds that are so Light (Edward Thomas Poems)
As the clouds that are so light,Beautiful, swift, and bright,Cast shadows on field and parkOf the earth that is so ...
If I Should Ever by Chance (Edward Thomas Poems)
If I should ever by chance grow rich I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch, Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater, And let ...
A Cat (Edward Thomas Poems)
She had a name among the children;But no one loved though someone ownedHer, locked her out of doors at bedtimeAnd ...
The New House (Edward Thomas Poems)
Now first, as I shut the door,I was aloneIn the new house; and the windBegan to moan.Old at once was ...
Lovers (Edward Thomas Poems)
The two men in the road were taken aback.The lovers came out shading their eyes from the sun,And never was ...
The Hollow Wood (Edward Thomas Poems)
Out in the sun the goldfinch flitsAlong the thistle-tops, flits and twitsAbove the hollow woodWhere birds swim like fish -Fish ...
Digging (Edward Thomas Poems)
What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth,Letting down two clay pipes into the earth?The one I smoked, the ...
After You Speak (Edward Thomas Poems)
After you speakAnd what you meantIs plain,My eyesMeet yours that mean,With your cheeks and hair,Something more wise,More dark,And far different.Even ...
The Dark Forest (Edward Thomas Poems)
Dark is the forest and deep, and overheadHang stars like seeds of lightIn vain, though not since they were sown ...
To-Night (Edward Thomas Poems)
Harry, you know at nightThe larks in Castle AlleySing from the attic's heightAs if the electric lightWere the true sun ...
A Private (Edward Thomas Poems)
This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doorsMany a frozen night, and merrilyAnswered staid drinkers, good bedmen, and all ...
The Huxter (Edward Thomas Poems)
He has a hump like an ape on his back;He has of money a plentiful lack;And but for a gay ...
Like the Touch of Rain (Edward Thomas Poems)
Like the touch of rain she wasOn a man's flesh and hair and eyesWhen the joy of walking thusHas taken ...
Sowing (Edward Thomas Poems)
It was a perfect dayFor sowing; justAs sweet and dry was the groundAs tobacco-dust.I tasted deep the hourBetween the farOwl's ...
Head and Bottle (Edward Thomas Poems)
The downs will lose the sun, white alyssumLose the bees' hum;But head and bottle tilted back in the cartWill never ...
Tall Nettles (Edward Thomas Poems)
Tall nettles cover up, as they have done These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough Long worn out, and ...
How at Once (Edward Thomas Poems)
How at once should I know,When stretched in the harvest blueI saw the swift's black bow,That I would not have ...
Cock-crow (Edward Thomas Poems)
Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by nightTo be cut down by the sharp axe of light, -Out ...
Snow (Edward Thomas Poems)
In the gloom of whiteness,In the great silence of snow,A child was sighingAnd bitterly saying:'Oh,They have killed a white bird ...
I Built Myself a House of Glass (Edward Thomas Poems)
I built myself a house of glass:It took my years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God ...
The Cherry Trees (Edward Thomas Poems)
The cherry trees bend over and are shedding,On the old road where all that passed are dead,Their petals, strewing the ...
Thaw (Edward Thomas Poems)
Over the land half freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed, And saw from elm-tops, delicate ...
In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) (Edward Thomas Poems)
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from home, who, with ...
In Memoriam (Edward Thomas Poems)
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men,Now far from home, who, with ...
Aspens (Edward Thomas Poems)
All day and night, save winter, every weather, Above the inn, the smithy and the shop, The aspens at the ...