Ronald Stuart Thomas Night Poems

• 1. Evans
  Evans? Yes, many a time
  I came down his bare flight
  Of stairs into the gaunt kitchen
  With its wood fire, where crickets sang
  ...
• 2. Thirteen Blackbirds Looking At A Man
  I
  
  It is calm.
  It is as though
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• 3. A Peasant
  Iago Prytherch his name, though, be it allowed,
  Just an ordinary man of the bald Welsh hills,
  Who pens a few sheep in a gap of cloud.
  Docking mangels, chipping the green skin
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• 4. 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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• 5. Night And Morning
  One night of tempest I arose and went
  Along the Menai shore on dreaming bent;
  The wind was strong, and savage swung the tide,
  And the waves blustered on Caernarfon side.
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• 6. Welsh Landscape
  To live in Wales is to be conscious
  At dusk of the spilled blood
  That went into the making of the wild sky,
  Dyeing the immaculate rivers
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• 7. 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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