Beatie Edney Instagram – Weekend – well week day away – with @allieesiri , of course it would contain poems, as she is a brilliant poetry editor (including my favourite book 365 Poems for Life). This poem Adelstrop is by Edward Thomas who died in WW1. Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
Yes. I remember Adlestrop —
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the blare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. | Posted on 19/Mar/2024 00:55:01
