posted on 2024-04-25, 17:29authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Not the end: but there's nothing more. Sweet Summer and Winter rude I have loved, and friendship and love, The crowd and solitude: But I know them: I weary not; But all that they mean I know. I would go back again home Now. Yet how should I go? This is my grief. That land, My home, I have never seen; No traveller tells of it, However far he has been. And could I discover it, I fear my happiness there, Or my pain, might be dreams of return Here, to these things that were. Remembering ills, though slight Yet irremediable, Brings a worse, an impurer pang Than remembering what was well. No: I cannot go back, And would not if I could. Until blindness come, I must wait And blink at what is not good.
History
Identifier
2928.txt
Creator
Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)
Date
1979
Date Created
01/01/1979
Temporal Date
31/12/1979
Type
Poem
Rights
Copyright Edward Thomas, 1979, reproduced under licence from Faber and Faber Ltd.