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Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Dylan Thomas

Thinking, Conviction, Harsh

Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Dylan Thomas

Past, Looks, Function

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And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.

Dylan Thomas

Fall, Autumn, Rose

"Poem in October" l. 14 (1946)

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A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slug's a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?

Dylan Thomas

Summer, Time, Slugs

Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

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When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.

Dylan Thomas

Nature, Eye, Blood

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wind at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.

Dylan Thomas

Wine, Night, Men

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days.

Dylan Thomas

Adventure, Sea, Vines

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

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Down And, Dominion, Sun

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

Dylan Thomas

Men, Umpires, Confusion

Collected Poems introduction (1953)

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Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

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Lying, Heart, Winning

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Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

Dylan Thomas

Good Night, Men, Too Late

Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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In the beginning was the word, the word
That from the solid bases of the light
Abstracted all the letters of the void.

Dylan Thomas

Light, Letters, Void

Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

Dylan Thomas

Sleep, Night, Years

A Child's Christmas in Wales (1954) p. 5

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Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

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Baby, Father, Garden

Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 30

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Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

Dylan Thomas

Thinking, Records, Whiskey

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And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?

Dylan Thomas

Aunt, Shining, Missing

Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Dylan Thomas

Development, Lectures, Week

Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain.

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Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

Dylan Thomas

Time, Mean, Sea

"Fern Hill" l. 52 (1946)

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All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.

Dylan Thomas

World, Milk, Abyss

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.91, New Directions Publishing

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And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!

Dylan Thomas

Eye, Sunday, Night

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Love drips & gathers, but the fallen blood Shall calm her sores..." -Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

Dylan Thomas

Flower, Blood, Green

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Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.

Dylan Thomas

Country, House, Prophet

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This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

Dylan Thomas

Girl, Eye, Smoking

Song: If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love

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In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.

Dylan Thomas

Art, Lying, Grief

In My Craft or Sullen Art" l. 17 (1946)

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Born: October 27, 1914
Died: November 9, 1953
Occupation: Poet
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