Your breath was shed Invisible to make About the soiled undead Night for my sake, A raining trail Intangible to them With biter's tooth and tail And cobweb drum, A dark as deep My love as a round wave To hide the wolves of sleep And mask the grave.

from The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1946 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Poems by This Author

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas Never until the mankind making And death shall have no dominion by Dylan Thomas And death shall have no dominion Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night, Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs I see the boys of summer by Dylan Thomas I see the boys of summer in their ruin Light breaks where no sun shines by Dylan Thomas Light breaks where no sun shines; My hero bares his nerves by Dylan Thomas My hero bares his nerves along my wrist Our eunuch dreams by Dylan Thomas Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

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