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The Poems of Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas

PoetryThe First World War

Thomas's poems attend to roads, plants, weather and the elusive connections between a place and a private memory.

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Length
138 poems
Reading time
About 1 hr 38 min
Words
23,213

Contents

  1. The Trumpet1 min
  2. The Sign-Post1 min
  3. Tears1 min
  4. Two Pewits1 min
  5. The Manor Farm1 min
  6. The Owl1 min
  7. Swedes1 min
  8. Will You Come?1 min
  9. As the Team’s Head-Brass1 min
  10. Thaw1 min
  11. Interval1 min
  12. Like the Touch of Rain1 min
  13. The Path1 min
  14. The Combe1 min
  15. If I Should Ever by Chance1 min
  16. What Shall I Give?1 min
  17. If I Were to Own1 min
  18. And You, Helen1 min
  19. When First1 min
  20. Head and Bottle1 min
  21. After You Speak1 min
  22. Sowing1 min
  23. When We Two Walked1 min
  24. In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)1 min
  25. Fifty Faggots1 min
  26. Women He Liked1 min
  27. Early One Morning1 min
  28. The Cherry Trees1 min
  29. It Rains1 min
  30. The Huckster1 min
  31. A Gentleman1 min
  32. The Bridge1 min
  33. Lob5 min
  34. Bright Clouds1 min
  35. The Clouds That Are So Light1 min
  36. Some Eyes Condemn1 min
  37. May 232 min
  38. The Glory1 min
  39. Melancholy1 min
  40. Adlestrop1 min
  41. The Green Roads1 min
  42. The Mill-Pond1 min
  43. It Was Upon1 min
  44. Tall Nettles1 min
  45. Haymaking1 min
  46. How at Once1 min
  47. Gone, Gone Again1 min
  48. The Sun Used to Shine1 min
  49. October1 min
  50. The Long Small Room1 min
  51. Liberty1 min
  52. November1 min
  53. The Sheiling1 min
  54. The Gallows1 min
  55. Birds’ Nests1 min
  56. Rain1 min
  57. “Home”1 min
  58. There’s Nothing Like the Sun1 min
  59. When He Should Laugh1 min
  60. An Old Song1 min
  61. The Penny Whistle1 min
  62. Lights Out1 min
  63. Cock-Crow1 min
  64. Words1 min
  65. Words4 min
  66. I Never Saw That Land Before1 min
  67. The Dark Forest1 min
  68. Celandine1 min
  69. The Ash Grove1 min
  70. Old Man1 min
  71. The Thrush1 min
  72. I Built Myself a House of Glass1 min
  73. February Afternoon1 min
  74. Digging1 min
  75. Two Houses1 min
  76. The Mill-Water1 min
  77. A Dream1 min
  78. Sedge-Warblers1 min
  79. Under the Woods1 min
  80. What Will They Do?1 min
  81. To-Night1 min
  82. A Cat1 min
  83. The Unknown1 min
  84. Song1 min
  85. She Dotes1 min
  86. For These1 min
  87. March the Third1 min
  88. The New House1 min
  89. March1 min
  90. The Cuckoo1 min
  91. Over the Hills1 min
  92. Home1 min
  93. The Hollow Wood1 min
  94. Wind and Mist3 min
  95. The Unknown Bird1 min
  96. The Lofty Sky1 min
  97. After Rain1 min
  98. Digging1 min
  99. But These Things Also1 min
  100. April1 min
  101. The Barn1 min
  102. The Barn and the Down1 min
  103. The Child on the Cliffs1 min
  104. Good Night1 min
  105. The Wasp Trap1 min
  106. July1 min
  107. A Tale1 min
  108. Parting1 min
  109. Lovers1 min
  110. That Girl’s Clear Eyes1 min
  111. The Child in the Orchard1 min
  112. The Source1 min
  113. The Mountain Chapel1 min
  114. First Known When Lost1 min
  115. The Word1 min
  116. These Things That Poets Said1 min
  117. Home1 min
  118. Aspens1 min
  119. An Old Song1 min
  120. There Was a Time1 min
  121. Ambition1 min
  122. No One Cares Less Than I1 min
  123. Roads1 min
  124. This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong1 min
  125. The Chalk-Pit2 min
  126. Health2 min
  127. Beauty1 min
  128. Snow1 min
  129. The New Year1 min
  130. The Brook1 min
  131. The Other3 min
  132. House and Man1 min
  133. The Gypsy1 min
  134. Man and Dog2 min
  135. A Private1 min
  136. Out in the Dark1 min
  137. The Lane1 min
  138. The Watchers1 min
  139. Endnotes1 min