Author: Dylan Thomas

The seed-at-zero shall not storm That town of ghosts, the trodden womb, With her rampart to his tapping, No god-in-hero […]

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound […]

O Out of a bed of love When that immortal hospital made one more moove to soothe The curless counted […]

When the morning was waking over the war He put on his clothes and stepped out and he died, The […]

O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the […]

It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled […]

My hero bares his nerves along my wrist That rules from wrist to shoulder, Unpacks the head that, like a […]

All that I owe the fellows of the grave And all the dead bequeathed from pale estates Lies in the […]

Where once the waters of your face Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows, The dead turns up its […]

I I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, […]

Ears in the turrets hear Hands grumble on the door, Eyes in the gables see The fingers at the locks. […]

I have longed to move away From the hissing of the spent lie And the old terrors’ continual cry Growing […]

I Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light, Of light and love the tempers of the heart, Whack their […]

Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires, Shall the blind horse sing sweeter? Convenient bird and beast lie lodged […]

Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children’s circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time […]

Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo’s month, Under the lank, fourth folly on Glamorgan’s hill, As the green […]

And death shall have no dominion. Dead mean naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and […]

I fellowed sleep who kissed me in the brain, Let fall the tear of time; the sleeper’s eye, Shifting to […]

Foster the light nor veil the manshaped moon, Nor weather winds that blow not down the bone, But strip the […]

Before I knocked and flesh let enter, With liquid hands tapped on the womb, I who was as shapeless as […]

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, […]

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead […]

On almost the incendiary eve Of several near deaths, When one at the great least of your best loved And […]

Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire […]

This day winding down now At God speeded summer’s end In the torrent salmon sun, In my seashaken house On […]

When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through the halfmoon’s […]

I I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels, Forged in man’s minerals, the brassy orator Laying my ghost […]

In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie […]

I Half of the fellow father as he doubles His sea-sucked Adam in the hollow hulk, Half of the fellow […]

My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows from the […]