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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 by the same wintry fever."
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, 1934-1952 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions. |
"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 (1953, rev. ed. 1956) New Directions. |
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