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Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas was born in Wales in 1914. He was a neurotic, sickly child who shied away from school and preferred reading on his own; he read all of D. H. Lawrence's...
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FURTHER READING
Poems About Aging
Affirmation
by Donald Hall
Age
by Robert Creeley
At Thirty
by Lynda Hull
Blues
by Elizabeth Alexander
El Dorado
by Edgar Allan Poe
First Gestures
by Julia Spicher Kasdorf
In View of the Fact
by A. R. Ammons
My Lost Youth
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Since Nine—
by C. P. Cavafy
The Edges of Time
by Kay Ryan
The Human Seasons
by John Keats
The Young Man's Song
by W. B. Yeats
To Chloe: Who for his sake wished herself younger
by William Cartwright
When You are Old
by W. B. Yeats
Poems About Fathers
A Boy and His Dad
by Edgar Guest
Blood
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Daddy
by Sylvia Plath
Descriptions of Heaven and Hell
by Mark Jarman
Father
by Edgar Guest
Father Outside
by Nick Flynn
Father's Song
by Gregory Orr
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
by Sherman Alexie
Inventing Father In Las Vegas
by Lynn Emanuel
Lay Back the Darkness
by Edward Hirsch
Man of the Year
by Robin Becker
my father moved through dooms of love
by E. E. Cummings
My Father on His Shield
by Walt McDonald
My Father's Hat
by Mark Irwin
My Papa's Waltz
by Theodore Roethke
Only a Dad
by Edgar Guest
Parents
by William Meredith
Poems about Fathers
Tended Strength: Gifts of Poetry for Fathers
The Ferryer
by Sharon Olds
The Idea of Ancestry
by Etheridge Knight
The Idiot
by Charles Reznikoff
Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden
To Her Father with Some Verses
by Anne Bradstreet
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With
by Suzanne Rancourt
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach
by William Stafford
Working Late
by Louis Simpson
Yesterday
by W. S. Merwin
Related Prose
Poetic Form: Villanelle
Other Villanelles
Improvisation on Lines by Isaac the Blind
by Peter Cole
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
Related Pages
Poetry Ringtones
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Do not go gentle into that good night  
by Dylan Thomas
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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.


Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 



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From The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp. Used with permission.
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