Sunday 22 May 2011

Favourite Poetry - Tall Nettles - Edward Thomas



Tall Nettles

TALL nettles cover up, as they have done
These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough
Long worn out, and the roller made of stone:
Only the elm butt tops the nettles now.

This corner of the farmyard I like most:
As well as any bloom upon a flower
I like the dust on the nettles, never lost
Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.


Edward Thomas 

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:07 am

    Thank you so much...I delight in your postings...

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  2. Anonymous6:40 am

    Did you 'specially grow the nettles?

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  3. I have been looking round for a suitable patch, but didn't find these until staying with my cousin in Sussex last weekend!

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