The Child on the Cliff

Scope and Content

First line: Mother, the root of this little flower.

Written in Steep.

Poem 40 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 121.

Drafts:

(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990)

First published in Last Poems (1918).

Related Material

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.120 for variant drafts.