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Collapse 1 - Poems of R. S. Thomas - typescript/manuscript; published and unpublished.1 - Poems of R. S. Thomas - typescript/manuscript; published and unpublished.
1 - Draft untitled poem of two 4 line stanzas "I look out at the timeless sea... Over love's depths only the surface is wrinkled."
2 - Poem "July 5th"; published as "July 5, 1940" - the date of his marriage to Elsie Eldridge: "Nought I could give today / would half compare... and white as the wave-washed sand / If I knew how."
3 - Draft untitled poem consisting of 12 lines "Come to me a moment, stand... To deserve you as you showed how."
4 - Poem "Album" consisting of four 5 line stanzas: "My father is dead / I who am look at him... And so they do the / three of them at me who weep."
5 - Draft untitled poem of one 26 line stanza "Grey waters, vast... my watching from praying."
6 - Poems - relating to "Luminary"
7 - Untitled poem of 5 couplets: "One drop of blood / fallen from a figure on a cross... One crumb of bread / in the smudged palm, dazzling me".
8 - Untitled poem of 27 lines "One thing I forgot/ that I had been sent back/ to live life over again... of the first child guiltlessly smiling / and full of the genes' malevolence as ever."
9 - Untitled poem; five 6 line stanzas: "The sky over my head / grew darker than the night... On the Rock of Ages I take my stand:/Christ's blood quenches the thunder Grand."
10 - The first 4 lines of "Song": "The morning was soft with the promise of Spring..."
11 - Draft poem "Blackbird" consisting of 19 lines (published version "The Blackbird" 20 lines): "Its eye a dark pool... of his thought in song."
12 - Six titled poems
13 - "The Memorial" - two 4 line stanzas: "Yes, there'll be years to grow like a rose garden... But by a bearing nurtured in our children."
14 - "Song for Gwydion" consisting of two 4 line stanzas: "When I was a child and the soft flesh was forming..."
15 - Small Christmas card decorated with stick-on picture of coloured holly and two 4 line stanzas
16 - Story "The Treasure on the Ridge". Opening first page "A long time ago at the top of Cwm Tawe there lived a conjurer with an iron hand……"
17 - Poem in MEE's hand - 11 lines: "After far fishing and the faintless haul......... The wood's joy, the wood's grief."
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