Head and Bottle

Scope and Content

First line: The downs will lose the sun, white alyssum.

Written in Steep.

Poem 60 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 175.

Drafts:

(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990)

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

Related Material

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.174 for variant drafts.