posted on 2024-04-25, 17:29authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
In the gloom of whiteness, In the great silence of snow, A child was sighing And bitterly saying: 'Oh, They have killed a white bird up there on her nest, The down is fluttering from her breast!' And still it fell through that dusky brightness On the child crying for the bird of the snow.
History
Identifier
2953.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.