Ronald Stuart Thomas Heart Poems

• 1. Chapel Deacon
  Who put that crease in your soul,
  Davies, ready this fine morning
  For the staid chapel, where the Book's frown
  Sobers the sunlight? Who taught you to pray
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• 2. The Dark Well
  They see you as they see you,
  A poor farmer with no name,
  Ploughing cloudward, sowing the wind
  With squalls of gulls at the day's end.
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• 3. A Welsh Testament
  All right, I was Welsh. Does it matter?
  I spoke a tongue that was passed on
  To me in the place I happened to be,
  A place huddled between grey walls
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• 4. An Old Man
  Looking upon this tree with its quaint pretension
  Of holding the earth, a leveret, in its claws,
  Or marking the texture of its living bark,
  A grey sea wrinkled by the winds of years,
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• 5. Here
  I am a man now.
  Pass your hand over my brow.
  You can feel the place where the brains grow.
  
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• 6. A Day In Autumn
  It will not always be like this,
  The air windless, a few last
  Leaves adding their decoration
  To the treesâ?? shoulders, braiding the cuffs
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• 7. Death Of A Poet
  Laid now on his smooth bed
  For the last time, watching dully
  Through heavy eyelids the day's colour
  Widow the sky, what can he say
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• 8. Taliesin
  I have been all men known to history,
  Wondering at the world and at time passing;
  I have seen evil, and the light blessing
  Innocent love under a spring sky.
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