The Mill-Pond

First line: The sun blazed while the thunder yet.

Written in Steep.

Poem 28 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 89.

Drafts:

(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990)

(2) Berg Collection, New York Public Library

First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.88 for variant drafts.