Adelstrop by Edward Thomas
E.Thomas read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\n http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n \n Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\n \n ---------------------------------------------------\n \n Adelstrop\n by Edward Thomas ((1878 \u2013 1917) \n \n Yes. I remember Adlestrop \u2014\n The name, because one afternoon\n Of heat the express-train drew up there\n Unwontedly. It was late June.\n The steam hissed. Some one cleared his throat.\n No one left and no one came\n On the bare platform. What I saw\n Was Adlestrop \u2014 only the name\n \n And willows, willow-herb, and grass,\n And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,\n No whit less still and lonely fair\n Than the high cloudlets in the sky.\n \n And for that minute a blackbird sang\n Close by, and around him, mistier,\n Farther and farther, all the birds\n Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.