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"I
Am found.
O let him
Scald me and drown
Me in his world's wound.
His lightning answers my
Cry. My voice burns in his hand."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Vision and Prayer." |
"When the morning was waking over the war
He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died...."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred." |
"butter fat goosegirls, bounced in a gambo bed,
Their breasts full of honey, under their gander king
Trounced by his wings in the hissing shippen, long dead
And gone that barley dark where their clogs danced in the spring...."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "In the white giant's thigh." |
"Who
Are you
Who is born
In the next room
So loud to my own
That I can hear the womb
Opening and the dark run...?"
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Vision and Prayer." |
"The morning is flying on the wings of his age
And a hundred storks perch on the sun's right hand."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred." |
"Now curlew cry me down to kiss the mouths of their dust."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "In the white giant's thigh." |
"But time has set its maggot on their track."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Was there a time." |
"Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. And Death Shall Have No Dominion (l. 23-26). . .
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions. |
"Open as to the air to the naked shadow
O she lies alone and still,
Innocent between two wars,
With the incestuous secret brother in the seconds to perpetuate the stars,
A man torn up mourns in the sole night."
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Into her Lying Down Head." |
"Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
In children's circuses could stay their troubles?"
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Was there a time." |
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