Swedes

Scope and Content

First line: They have taken the gable from the roof of clay.

Written in Steep.

Poem 26 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 83.

Drafts:

(1) British Library (Add MSS. 44990), two versions

(2) Typescript once owned by Julian Thomas (Thomas' brother), now in private hands

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

Related Material

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.82 for variant drafts.