Birds' Nests

Scope and Content

First line: The summer nests uncovered by autumn wind.

Written in Steep.

Poem 9 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 43.

Drafts:

(1) Typescripts once owned by Mary Elizabeth Thomas (Thomas' mother), two versions

(2) Typescript poem found among the Robert Frost papers in Dartmouth College Library

(3) 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.42 for variant drafts.