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Edward Thomas's Poetry, by title

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  • A Cat
    She had a name among the children;
    But no one loved though someone owned
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • A Gentleman
    'He has robbed two clubs. The judge at Salisbury
    Can't give him more than he undoubtedly
    18 lines
  • A Private
    This ploughman dead in battle slept out of doors
    Many a frozen night, and merrily
    8 lines, 2 comments
  • Adlestrop
    Yes, I remember Adlestrop,
    The name, because one afternoon
    16 lines
  • After Rain
    The rain of a night and a day and a night
    Stops at the light
    26 lines
  • After You Speak
    After you speak
    And what you meant
    26 lines
  • Ambition
    Unless it was that day I never knew
    Ambition. After a night of frost, before
    26 lines
  • And You, Helen
    And you, Helen, what should I give you?
    So many things I would give you
    23 lines, 1 comment
  • April
    The sweetest thing, I thought
    At one time, between earth and heaven
    25 lines
  • As the Clouds that are so Light
    As the clouds that are so light,
    Beautiful, swift, and bright,
    16 lines
  • As the Team's Head- Brass
    As the team's head-brass flashed out on the turn
    The lovers disappeared into the wood.
    38 lines, 3 comments
  • Aspens
    All day and night, save winter, every weather,
    Above the inn, the smithy and the shop,
    24 lines
  • Beauty
    What does it mean? Tired, angry, and ill at ease,
    No man, woman, or child alive could please
    18 lines
  • Birds' Nests
    he summer nests uncovered by autumn wind,
    Some torn, others dislodged, all dark,
    16 lines
  • Bob's Lane
    Women he liked, did shovel-bearded Bob,
    Old Farmer Hayward of the Heath, but he
    16 lines
  • But These Things Also
    But these things also are Spring's -
    On banks by the roadside the grass
    16 lines
  • Celandine
    Thinking of her had saddened me at first,
    Until I saw the sun on the celandines lie
    23 lines
  • Cock-crow
    Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night
    To be cut down by the sharp axe of light, -
    0 lines
  • Digging
    What matter makes my spade for tears or mirth,
    Letting down two clay pipes into the earth?
    10 lines
  • Digging 2
    To-day I think
    Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield,
    16 lines
  • Early One Morning
    Early one morning in May I set out,
    And nobody I knew was about.
    18 lines
  • Fifty Faggots
    There they stand, on their ends, the fifty fag gots
    That once were underwood of hazel and ash
    14 lines
  • First Known when Lost
    I never had noticed it until
    'Twas gone, - the narrow copse
    16 lines
  • For These
    An acre of land between the shore and the hills,
    Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three,
    16 lines
  • For These
    An acre of land between the shore and the hills,
    Upon a ledge that shows my kingdoms three,
    18 lines
  • Gone, Gone Again
    Gone, gone again,
    May, June, July,
    38 lines
  • Good-Night
    The skylarks are far behind that sang over the down;
    I can hear no more those suburb nightingales;
    16 lines
  • Haymaking
    After night's thunder far away had rolled
    The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold,
    42 lines
  • Head and Bottle
    The downs will lose the sun, white alyssum
    Lose the bees' hum;
    10 lines
  • Health
    Four miles at a leap, over the dark hollow land,
    To the frosted steep of the down and its junipers black,
    47 lines
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