Lift up the blinds

“Lift up your head, let
Comfort come through the devil’s clouds,
The nightmare’s mist
Suspended from the devil’s precipice,
Let comfort come slowly, lift
Up your hand to stroke the light,
Its honeyed cheek, soft-talking mouth,
Lift up the blinds over the blind eyes.”

—Dylan Thomas, “Lift up your face”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

The circular world

“(Turn the sea-spindle lateral,
The grooved land rotating, that the stylus of lightning
Dazzle this face of voices on the moon-turned table,
Let the wax disk babble
Shames and the damp dishonours, the relic scraping.
These are your years’ recorders. The circular world stands still.)”

—Dylan Thomas, “I, in my intricate image”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

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The sun was red, the moon was grey

“The sun was red, the moon was grey,
The earth and sky were as two mountains meeting.”

—Dylan Thomas, “From love’s first fever to her plague”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

Such light shall not illuminate my fears

“Light, I know, treads the ten million stars,
And blooms in the Hesperides. Light stirs
Out of the heavenly sea onto the moon’s shores.
Such light shall not illuminate my fears
And catch a turnip ghost in every cranny.”

—Dylan Thomas, “Light, I know, treads the ten million stars”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

Children of darkness got no wings

“Children of darkness got no wings,
This we know, we got no wings,
Stay, in a circle chalked upon the floor,
Waiting all vainly this we know.”

—Dylan Thomas, “Children of darkness got no wings”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

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A legendary horse with hoof and feather

“And, as we watch, the rainbow’s foot
Stamps on the ground,
A legendary horse with hoof and feather,
Impatient to be off.”

—Dylan Thomas, “Rain cuts the place we tread”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.