PoemHere In This spring
Author / PoetDylan Thomas

Here in this spring, stars float along the void;
Here in this ornamental winter
Down pelts the naked weather;
This summer buries a spring bird.

Symbols are selected from the years’
Slow rounding of four seasons’ coasts,
In autumn teach three seasons’ fires
And four birds’ notes.

I should tell summer from the trees, the worms
Tell, if at all, the winter’s storms
Or the funeral of the sun;
I should learn spring by the cuckooing,
And the slug should teach me destruction.

A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slug’s a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?

Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
27 Oct 1914 - 9 Nov 1953
Region: Northern Europe
Period: Modernist
Movement: Modernism

more poems by Dylan Thomas

Poem NameTopic
Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait
Elegy
Ears In The Turrets Hear
How Shall My Animal
Holy Spring
In Country Sleep
If my head hurt a hair’s foot
A Child’s Christmas in Wale
Altarwise By Owl-Light
I, In My Intricate Image

all poems by Dylan Thomas

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