Potential Titles: Edward Thomas

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The light of this pale choked day - Edward Thomas "After Rain"

Challenges and menaces to the wide sky - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

The sadness of the owl's last cry - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

Touched the roar with silence - Edward Thomas "Ambition"

When mist has been forgiven - Edward Thomas "April"

Not even the spirits of memory - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"

And fear with restless wing - Edward Thomas "The Ash Grove"

Aspens at the cross-roads talk - Edward Thomas "Aspens"

Over lightless pane and footless road - Edward Thomas "Aspens"

To keep corn for rats and men - Edward Thomas "The Barn"

Only fowls have foothold enough - Edward Thomas "The Barn"

As they remember me without smile or moan - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

Has drowned the Future and the Past - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

This moment brief between two lives - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

Lights and shades hid what has never been - Edward Thomas "The Bridge"

Mellow the blackbird sang and sharp the thrush - Edward Thomas "The Brook"

The first of insects to have earth and sun - Edward Thomas "The Brook"

Who seeks through Winter's ruins - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"

Something to pay Winter's debts - Edward Thomas "But These Things Also"

The sun on the celandines lie redoubled - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

Found the celandines of February - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

For a short swift eternity - Edward Thomas "Celandine"

Ash-trees standing ankle-deep in brier - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

Brier and bramble act the parts - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

Actors and audience and lights all gone - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

That looked at him for recognition - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"

Two million things for me to learn - Edward Thomas "The Child in the Orchard"

The grasshopper works at his sewing-machine - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"

Leave your book to the grasshopper - Edward Thomas "The Child on the Cliffs"

Drowned by the voice of my dead - Edward Thomas "The Cuckoo"

Hang stars like seeds of light - Edward Thomas "The Dark Forest"

Multitudes that dwell inside - Edward Thomas "The Dark Forest"

A yard or two nearer the living air - Edward Thomas "Digging"

This roar of parleying starlings - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"

Strike and bear the stroke - Edward Thomas "February Afternoon"

What the curlew needs not - Edward Thomas "For These"

Honoured by a few ash-trees - Edward Thomas "For These"

The skylarks are far behind - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"

With a familiar twilight echoing - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"

Completes a magic of strange welcome - Edward Thomas "Good-Night"

Built myself a house of glass - Edward Thomas "I Built Myself a House of Glass"

A language not to be betrayed - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"

Who answer when such whispers bid - Edward Thomas "I Never Saw That Land Before"

This drowse of heat and solitude - Edward Thomas "July"

I have come to the borders of sleep - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

Where all must lose their way, however straight - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

To go into the unknown I must enter and leave alone - Edward Thomas "Lights Out"

The cold burning of hail and wind - Edward Thomas "March"

Their unwilling hoard of song - Edward Thomas "March"

Water that toils no more - Edward Thomas "The Mill-Water"

Growing with rosemary and lavender - Edward Thomas "Old Man"

Served one master ill - Edward Thomas "An Old Song"

The winds blow fast as the stars are slow - Edward Thomas "Out in the Dark"

And the inn where all were kind - Edward Thomas "Over the Hills"

Nothing but the wild rain - Edward Thomas "Rain"

Born into this solitude - Edward Thomas "Rain"

Roads go on while we forget - Edward Thomas "Roads"

Sheep on the mountains of sleep - Edward Thomas "Roads"

Translate the word the cuckoo cries - Edward Thomas "She Dotes"

Crying for the bird of the snow - Edward Thomas "Snow"

Dreamless long-dead Amen-hotep lies - Edward Thomas "Swedes"

Never lost except to prove the sweetness - Edward Thomas "Tall Nettles"

Less mighty than my mind had dreamed - Edward Thomas "There Was a Time"

For what can neither ask nor heed - Edward Thomas "There Was a Time"

In the storm smoking along the wind - Edward Thomas "This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"

Two witches' cauldrons roar - Edward Thomas "This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"

Born of a fair November - Edward Thomas "The Thrush"

Chases the dreams of men - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"

The stars that left unlit - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"

Washed the eyes of the stars - Edward Thomas "The Trumpet"

Out of reach of the road's dust - Edward Thomas "Two Houses"

Riding the dark surge silently - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

The one sound under the sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

Plunging earthward, tossing high - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

Over the ghost who wonders why - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

Nor choose 'twixt earth and sky - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"

When these woods were young - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

No garden here, apples nor mistletoe - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

And he had not much lead or gold - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

Gone out of most memories - Edward Thomas "Under the Woods"

As the rain can do without the flowers - Edward Thomas "What Will They Do?"

A hollow land as vast as heaven - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Bounded by oak and thorn - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Angled fields of grass and grain - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

The house was not to blame - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Mist like chaos surging back - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

Had a garden of flint and clay - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

The one crop that never failed - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

The clay first broke my heart - Edward Thomas "Wind and Mist"

In the undefiled abyss of what can never be - Edward Thomas "The Word"

As the linnet note in the heat of Midsummer - Edward Thomas "Words"

Young as our streams after rain - Edward Thomas "Words"


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