Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas Poems
81. | The Manor Farm | 12/31/2002 |
82. | The New House | 12/31/2002 |
83. | The Other | 4/7/2010 |
84. | The Owl | 12/31/2002 |
85. | The Path | 12/31/2002 |
86. | The Sign-Post | 12/31/2002 |
87. | The Sorrow of True Love | 5/4/2015 |
88. | The Trumpet | 12/31/2002 |
89. | The Word | 12/31/2002 |
90. | This Is No Case Of Petty Right Or Wrong | 4/7/2010 |
91. | To-Night | 4/7/2010 |
92. | Two Pewits | 4/7/2010 |
93. | Unknown | 1/3/2003 |
94. | When First I Came Here | 12/31/2002 |
95. | Words | 1/3/2003 |
Comments about Edward Thomas
Rain
Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain
On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me
Remembering again that I shall die
And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks
For washing me cleaner than I have been
Since I was born into this solitude.
Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon:
But here I pray that none whom once I loved
Is dying to-night or lying still awake
Solitary, listening to the rain,
Either in pain or thus in sympathy
Helpless among the living and the dead,
Like a cold water among broken reeds,
Myriads of broken reeds all ...
Bob's Lane
Women he liked, did shovel-bearded Bob,
Old Farmer Hayward of the Heath, but he
Loved horses. He himself was like a cob
And leather-coloured. Also he loved a tree.
For the life in them he loved most living things,
But a tree chiefly. All along the lane
He planted elms where now the stormcock sings
That travellers hear from the slow-climbing train.
Edward Thomas is considered by many major poets, such as T.S.Eliot and Ted Hughes, to have a big influence on the development of English poetry in the 20th century. Hughes said: He is the father of us all.
Thomas and Robert Frost were best friends. It was Frost who encouraged Thomas to turn to poetry at the age of 36, three years before his death.
He is still not as widely known as Wilfred Owen, who was the other significant poet to be killed on the Western Front.
Please read my poem 'Roads To France' written about him and in his memory.
i need the Comparison between 'Tall Nettles' and 'Thistles'