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First line: I have come to the borders of sleep. Written in Trowbridge. Manuscript first draft in ink.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
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First line: I have come to the borders of sleep. Written in Trowbridge. Manuscript first draft in ink.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: No one so much as you. Written ' going home on sick leave'. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Here again (she said) is March the third. Written in Steep. Typescript. Manuscript alterations in Eleanor Farjeon's hand, lines 6-8 the most heavily corrected, also 9, 13 and 20, which probably reflect the editing mentioned in Thomas' letters to her, printed in E. Farjeon, Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years (1958), p. 132. (1) 'Perhaps I shall be able to mend March the 3rd. I know it must be either mended or ended'. (28 Apr 1915); (2) 'I have mended March 3rd too, you see'. (29 Apr 1915).
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Now I know that Spring will come again. Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: The rain and wind, the rain and wind raved endlessly. Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: November's days are thirty. Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: The green elm with the one great bough of gold. Written in High Beech, Essex. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Old Man, or Lad's-love,--in the name there's nothing. Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: I may come near loving you. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: I may come near loving you. Manuscript draft in ink.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Early one morning in May I set out. Written at Hare Hall. Manuscript draft in ink. Unique from the versions printed in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978).
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: In an ash-grove among the mountains once, I was glad. Written in London. Manuscript, second draft, in ink, sent to Eleanor Farjeon with a letter dated 8 Feb 1916.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Dark is the forest and deep, and overhead. Written at Steep and Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford. Manuscript draft in ink. Varies from a version printed in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978) by one word - 'born' rather than 'sown' in line 3.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: There was a weasel lived in the sun. Written at 'Selsfield (with Helen)'. Selsfield House, East Grinsted was the home of Vivian Locke Ellis. Manuscript draft in ink, found among family papers after the death of Helen Thomas. Titled 'For Baba' (Myfanwy Thomas).
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Out in the sun the goldfinch flits.Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: Today I want the sky. Written in Steep. Typescript. Lacks beginning, lines 25-34 only.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: He was the one man I met up in the woods. Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: It stands alone. Written 'travelling back from Gordon Bottomley's (Silverdale)'. Manuscript draft in pencil.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: The dim sea glints chill. The white sun is shy. Written in Steep. Typescript.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917
First line: The sun used to shine while we two walked. Written at Hare Hall. Typescript, with corrections in Eleanor Farjeon's hand. The typescript matches the version in the Blue Notebook (in private ownership), and Eleanor's annotations match the second draft which is held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917