Selected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas

Selected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas

Author:Edward Thomas [Matthew Hollis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571278961
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-09-15T00:00:00+00:00


Good-night

The skylarks are far behind that sang over the down;

I can hear no more those suburb nightingales;

Thrushes and blackbirds sing in the gardens of the town

In vain: the noise of man, beast, and machine prevails.

But the call of children in the unfamiliar streets

That echo with a familiar twilight echoing,

Sweet as the voice of nightingale or lark, completes

A magic of strange welcome, so that I seem a king

Among man, beast, machine, bird, child, and the ghost

That in the echo lives and with the echo dies.

The friendless town is friendly; homeless, I not lost;

Though I know none of these doors, and meet but strangers’ eyes.



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