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Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 - 9 April 1917 / London / England)
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''No one left and no one came
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Adlestrop (l. 6-9). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name—
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,''
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''Everything
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. As the Team's Head-Brass (l. 30-33). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
Would have been different. For it would have been
Another world.' 'Ay, and a better, though
If we could see all all might seem good.'''
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''As the team's head-brass flashed out on the turn
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. As the Team's Head-Brass (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
The lovers disappeared into the wood.''
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''Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Cock-Crow (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of Short Poems, The. P. J. Kavanagh and James Michie, eds. Oxford University Press.
To be cut down by the sharp ax of light—,
Out of the night, two cocks together crow,
Cleaving the darkness with a silver blow:''
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''It is enough
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Digging (l. 13-16). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
To smell, to crumble the dark earth,
While the robin sings over again
Sad songs of Autumn mirth.''
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''Today I think Only with scents,—scents dead leaves
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Digging (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
yield,''
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''Under the heavens that know not what years be
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Haymaking (l. 38-42). . . Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
The men, the beasts, the trees, the implements
Uttered even what they will in times far hence—
All of us gone out of the reach of change—
Immortal in a picture of an old grange.''
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''After night's thunder far away had rolled
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. Haymaking (l. 1-2). . . Modern American & British Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed., in consultation with Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur. (Rev., shorter ed., 1955) Harcourt, Brace and Company.
The fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold''
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''Whenever I am sufficiently rich:
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. If I Should Ever by Chance (l. 11-14). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater—
I shall give them all to my elder daughter.''
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''The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
Edward Thomas (1878-1917), British poet. In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) (l. 1-3). . . Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.
This Eastertide call into mind the men
Now far from home,''
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