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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953 / Swansea / Wales)
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Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, on October 27, 1914. After grammar school he moved to London where, in 1934, his first book of poetry, Eighteen Poe .. more >>
71 poems of Dylan Thomas
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  ''How shall my animal
Whose wizard shape I trace in the cavernous skull,
Vessel of abscesses and exultation's shell,
Endure burial under the spelling wall....''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "How shall my animal."
 
  ''The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," 18 Poems (1934).
 
  ''Lie dry, rest robbed, my beast.
You have kicked from a dark den, leaped up the whinnying light,
And dug your grave in my breast.''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "How shall my animal."
 
  The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent...
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower (l. 1-5). . . The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1...
 
  ''How soon the servant sun
(Sir morrow mark),
Can time unriddle....''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "How soon the servant sun."
 
  ''Great is the hand that holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "The Hand That Signed the Paper."
 
  ''Let the soil squeal I am the biting man
And the velvet dead inch out.''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "How soon the servant sun."
 
  ''The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever,
And famine grew, and locusts came;
Great is the hand that holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name.''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. first published New Verse 18 (Dec. 1935). "The Hand That Signed The Paper," 25 Poems (1936).
 
  ''I dreamed my genesis in sweat of death, fallen
Twice in the feeding sea, grown
Stale of Adam's brine until, vision
Of new man strength, I seek the sun.''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "I dreamed my genesis."
 
  ''The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death.''
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. The Hand That Signed the Paper Felled a City (l. 1-4). . . The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1934-1952 (1...
 

 
 
 
 
 
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