600. Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
b'Edward Thomas read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\n\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\nTwitter:@classicpoetry\\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/poetryaloud\\n \\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n \\n---------------------------------------\\n \\nAdlestrop\\nby Edward Thomas ((1878 \\u2013 1917) \\n \\nYes. I remember Adlestrop \\u2014\\nThe name, because one afternoon\\nOf heat the express-train drew up there\\nUnwontedly. It was late June.\\n\\nThe steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.\\nNo one left and no one came\\nOn the bare platform. What I saw\\nWas Adlestrop \\u2014 only the name\\n \\nAnd willows, willow-herb, and grass,\\nAnd meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,\\nNo whit less still and lonely fair\\nThan the high cloudlets in the sky.\\n \\nAnd for that minute a blackbird sang\\nClose by, and around him, mistier, \\nFarther and farther, all the birds\\nOf Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.\\n \\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'