Frases de Edward Thomas

Philip Edward Thomas fue un escritor y poeta anglogalés.

Es considerado por lo general como poeta de la guerra, pese a que pocos entre sus poemas tratan directamente sobre sus experiencias bélicas. Se alistó en el ejército en 1915, y murió en combate en la Batalla de Arras en 1917, poco después de llegar a Francia. Wikipedia

✵ 3. marzo 1878 – 9. abril 1917

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“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”

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Fuente: "The Unknown", line 16, cited from Collected Poems (London: Selwyn & Blount, 1920), p. 116.

“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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"Adlestrop", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 71.

“I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,
Sniff them and think and sniff again and try
Once more to think what it is I am remembering,
Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,
Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,
With no meaning, than this bitter one.”

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Poem Old Man http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/old-man/

“The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.”

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"In Memoriam (Easter 1915)", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 173.

“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 break it.”

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"I Built Myself a House of Glass", line 1, cited from Collected Poems (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978) p. 215.

“I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.”

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The South Country (London: Dent, 1909) pp. 98-99.

“If I should ever by chance grow rich
I'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,
Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,
And let them all to my eldest daughter.”

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Poem If I Should Ever By Chance http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-should-ever-by-chance/