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Edward Thomas has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness…
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Verse is the natural speech of men, as singing is of birds'The Week's Survey, 18 June 1904
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are…
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The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with…
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Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.
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I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would…
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I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet…
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If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest…
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I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I…
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To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;…
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The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.
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How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the…
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