It rains

Scope and Content

First line: It rains, and nothing stirs within the fence.

Written at Hare Hall Camp, Gidea Park, Romford.

Poem 117 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 315.

Drafts:

(1) Bodleian (MS.Don.d.28)

(2) Blue notebook in the Thomas family's possession, two versions

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

Related Material

See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.314 for variant drafts.