A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas

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Introduction

3

(20)

Author's Prologue

20

(7)

18 Poems, 1934

I see the boys of summer

27

(1)

When once the twilight locks

28

(4)

A process in the weather of the heart

32

(4)

Before I knocked

36

(2)

The force that through the green fuse

38

(4)

My hero bares his nerves

42

(2)

Where once the waters of your face

44

(2)

If I were tickled by the rub of love

46

(3)

Our eunuch dreams

49

(2)

Especially when the October wind

51

(3)

When, like a running grave

54

(3)

From love's first fever

57

(2)

In the beginning

59

(3)

Light breaks where no sun shines

62

(4)

I fellowed sleep

66

(2)

I dreamed my genesis

68

(2)

My world is pyramid

70

(5)

All all and all the dry world's lever

75

(4)

Twenty-five Poems, 1936

I, in my intricate image

79

(7)

This bread I break

86

(2)

Incarnate devil

88

(1)

To-day, this insect

89

(3)

The seed-at-zero

92

(2)

Shall gods be said to thump the clouds

94

(1)

Here in this spring

94

(1)

Do you not father me

94

(3)

Out of the sighs

97

(1)

Hold hard, these ancient minutes

98

(3)

Was there a time

101

(1)

Now

102

(2)

Why east wind chills

104

(1)

A grief ago

105

(3)

How soon the servant sun

108

(2)

Ears in the turrets hear

110

(1)

Foster the light

111

(3)

The hand that signed the paper

114

(1)

Should lanterns shine

115

(1)

I have longed to move away

116

(2)

Find meat on bones

118

(1)

Grief thief of time

119

(2)

And death shall have no dominion

121

(2)

Then was my neophyte

123

(3)

Altarwise by owl-light

126

(19)

The Map of Love, 1939

Because the pleasure-bird whistles

145

(2)

I make this in a warring absence

147

(3)

When all my five and country senses see

150

(2)

We lying by seasand

152

(2)

It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell

154

(2)

O make me a mask

156

(1)

The spire cranes

157

(2)

After the funeral

159

(2)

Once it was the colour of saying

161

(2)

Not from this anger

163

(1)

How shall my animal

164

(3)

The tombstone told when she died

167

(1)

On no work of words

168

(1)

A saint about to fall

169

(4)

`If my head hurt a hair's foot'

173

(2)

Twenty-four years

175

(3)

Deaths and Entrances, 1946

The Conversation of Prayer

178

(2)

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child

180

(3)

Poem in October

183

(5)

This side of the truth

188

(2)

To Others Than You

190

(1)

Love in the Asylum

191

(2)

Unluckily for a death

193

(4)

The hunchback in the park

197

(3)

Into her lying down head

200

(3)

Do not go gentle into that good night

203

(3)

Deaths and Entrances

206

(3)

A Winter's Tale

209

(6)

On a Wedding Anniversary

215

(1)

There was a saviour

216

(2)

On the Marriage of a Virgin

218

(3)

In my craft or sullen art

221

(2)

Ceremony After a Fire Raid

223

(5)

Once below a time

228

(5)

When I woke

233

(2)

Among Those Killed in the Dawn Raid

235

(2)

Lie still, sleep becalmed

237

(2)

Vision and Prayer

239

(9)

Ballad of the Long-legged Bait

248

(17)

Holy Spring

265

(3)

Fern Hill

268

(5)

In Country Sleep, 1952

In Country Sleep

273

(8)

Over Sir John's hill

281

(3)

Poem on His Birthday

284

(5)

Lament

289

(3)

In the White Giant's Thigh

292

(5)

Elegy

297

(2)

Bibliography

299

(2)

Index of Poems

301

(2)

Index of Names

303

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