#fern hill

[seaside-hysteria]

shenanigans

[redglassbird]

When Dylan Thomas said Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea and when Auden said O let not time deceive you / you cannot conquer time and when T.S. Eliot said I have measured out my life with coffee spoons and when Pink Floyd said No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun I felt that.

[dreamy-conceit]

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

— Dylan Thomas, 'Fern Hill'

[cithaerons]

tamino, so it goes // dylan thomas, fern hill

[waltz-of-words]

“Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”

- Dylan Thomas, “Fern Hill”

[adreamofrefuge]

[inthearmsof]

all the sun long it was running, it was lovely

England, 2017

[p-isforpoetry]

"Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas (read by Sir Anthony Hopkins)

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,     The night above the dingle starry,          Time let me hail and climb     Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves          Trail with daisies and barley     Down the rivers of the windfall light.

And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,    In the sun that is young once only,         Time let me play and be    Golden in the mercy of his means, And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,         And the sabbath rang slowly    In the pebbles of the holy streams.

All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air    And playing, lovely and watery         And fire green as grass.    And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars    Flying with the ricks, and the horses         Flashing into the dark.

And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all    Shining, it was Adam and maiden,         The sky gathered again    And the sun grew round that very day. So it must have been after the birth of the simple light In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm    Out of the whinnying green stable         On to the fields of praise.

And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,    In the sun born over and over,         I ran my heedless ways,    My wishes raced through the house high hay And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs    Before the children green and golden         Follow him out of grace,

Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,    In the moon that is always rising,         Nor that riding to sleep    I should hear him fly with the high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,         Time held me green and dying    Though I sang in my chains like the sea.