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Edward Thomas – Key Quotes
- March
- "Spring will come again, / Perhaps tomorrow"
- "Cold burning"
- "Primroses / Torn by the hail"
- "The mighty sun wept tears of joy"
- "It was lost, too"
- "Rain, snow, sleet, hail"
- "They fought, if they remembered to fight"
- "They cared not what they sang or screamed"
- "Hoarse or sweet or fierce or soft"
- "They could do no wrong"
- "Not till night had half its stars"
- "Riot of songs, a silence"
- "Spring returns, perhaps tomorrow"
- Old Man
- "Old Man, or Lad's-love"
- "In the name there's nothing"
- "Feathery herb"
- "The herb itself I like not, but for certain / I love it"
- "Snipping the tips and shrivelling"
- "Thinking, perhaps of nothing"
- "A bent path to a door"
- "Me / Forbidding her to pick"
- "Shrivel the grey shreds"
- "I have mislaid the key."
- "Think of nothing, I see and I hear nothing"
- "Never can, remember"
- "An avenue, dark, nameless, without end."
- Tears
- "It seems I have no tears left."
- "If tears have ghosts"
- "All equals in their rage of gladness"
- "a great dragon"
- "the double-shadowed Tower"
- "Stirring and sweet"
- "Strange solitude was there and silence"
- "The music piercing that solitude"
- "Truths I had not dreamed, / And have forgotten since their beauty passed.
- But these things also
- "Long-dead that is greyer now"
- "All the Winter it was"
- "The shell [...] bleached"
- "Splashes of purest white"
- "A man mistakes / For earliest violets"
- "Something to pay Winter's debts"
- "Spring's here, Winter's not gone"
- Melancholy
- "The rain and wind, the rain and wind, raved endlessly."
- "The Summer storm [...] Wrought magic"
- "I feared the solitude / Far more I feared all company"
- "Sweeten the strange sweetness"
- "Wild air"
- "A distant cuckoo calling"
- "Near water falling"
- "As if in history"
- "Rumours of what had touched my friends, my foes, or me."
- The Glory
- "The glory of the beauty of the morning"
- "The cuckoo crying over the untouched dew"
- "The blackbird [...], and the dove"
- "Something sweeter than love"
- "The sublime vacancy / Of sky and meadow and forest and my own heart"
- "The glory invites me, yet it leaves me scorning"
- "All I can ever do, all I can be"
- "As far as heaven, as hell"
- "I was happy oft and oft before"
- "How dreary-swift [...] is Time?"
- "I cannot bite the day to the core."
- Words
- "Choose me, / You English words?"
- "Light as dreams, / Tough as oak"
- "Make me content / With some sweetness"
- "Whose nightingales / Have no wings"
- "Fixed and free"
- "As poets do."
- Aspens
- "The aspens at the cross-roads talk together"
- "The clink, the hum, the roar, the random singing"
- "The whisper [...] is not drowned"
- "Lightless pane and footless road"
- "Calls their ghosts"
- "A silent smithy, a silent inn"
- "The night of nightingales"
- "A ghostly room"
- "It would be the same"
- "Aspens must shake their leaves and men may hear"
- "But need not listen [...] to my rhymes."
- "We cannot other than an aspen be"
- This is no case of petty right or wrong
- "I hate not Germans, nor grow hot / With love of Englishmen"
- "My hatred of the Kaiser is love true"
- "A kind of god he is, banging a gong."
- "The storm smoking"
- "Two witches' cauldrons roar."
- "An England beautiful / And like her mother that died yesterday."
- "The phoenix broods serene"
- "The best and meanest Englishmen"
- "Lest / We lose what never slaves and cattle blessed."
- Rain
- Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain"
- "Remembering again that I shall die"
- "I was born into this solitude"
- "Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon"
- "Dying tonight or lying still awake"
- "Helpless among the living and the dead"
- "Myriads of broken reeds all still and stiff"
- "What [...] Cannot, the tempest tells me, disappoint."
- No one so much as you
- "Loves this my clay"
- "All that I ever did / For you seemed coarse"
- "Scarce my eyes dare meet you"
- "I but respond [...] And do not love."
- "We look and understand, / We cannot speak"
- "Words the most weak."
- "A helpless fretting"
- "A pine in solitude / Cradling a dove."
- The sun used to shine
- "Slowly together, paused and started"
- "Cheerfully parted"
- "We never disagreed"
- "An apple wasps had undermined"
- "In sunless Hades fields."
- "Under the moonlight"
- "Like memory's sand"
- "Other men through other flowers"
- As the team's head brass
- "The fallen elm"
- "The horses turned / Instead of treading me down"
- "The blizzard"
- "A woodpecker's round hole"
- "If I could only come back again"
- "One of my mates is dead."
- "Another world."
- Gone, Gone Again (Blenheim Oranges)
- "Harvest rain"
- "Fall grubby from the trees."
- "When the lost one was here"
- "To turn young men to dung"
- "The old house"
- "The footsteps of life"
- "Youth, love, age and pain"
- "I am something like that"
- "Still breathing and interested"
- "The house that is not dark"
- "Not one pane to reflect the sun"
- "They have broken every one."
- Lights Out
- "The unfathomable deep"
- "Where all must lose / Their way"
- "They can not choose."
- "Deceived the travellers"
- "In they sink."
- "Here love ends – / Despair, ambition ends"
- "Sleep that is sweeter"
- "I must enter, and leave, alone, / I know not how."
- "Its silence I hear and obey"
- "I may lose my way / And myself."