<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373504" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Do You Not Father Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you not father me, nor the erected arm<br>For my tall tower's sake cast in her stone?<br>Do you not mother me, nor, as I am,<br>The lovers' house, lie suffering my stain?<br>Do you not sister me, nor the erected crime<br>For my tall turrets carry as your sin?<br>Do you not brother me, nor, as you climb,<br>Adore my windows for their summer scene?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Am I not father, too, and the ascending boy,<br>The boy of woman and the wanton starer<br>Marking the flesh and summer in the bay?<br>Am I not sister, too, who is my saviour?<br>Am I not all of you by the directed sea<br>Where bird and shell are babbling in my tower?<br>Am I not you who front the tidy shore,<br>Nor roof of sand, nor yet the towering tiler?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You are all these, said she who gave me the long suck,<br>All these, he said who sacked the children's town,<br>Up rose the Abraham-man, mad for my sake,<br>They said, who hacked and humoured, they were mine.<br>I am, the tower told, felled by a timeless stroke,<br>Who razed my wooden folly stands aghast,<br>For man-begetters in the dry-as-paste,<br>The ringed-sea ghost, rise grimly from the wrack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you not father me on the destroying sand?<br>You are your sisters' sire, said seaweedy,<br>The salt sucked dam and darlings of the land<br>Who play the proper gentleman and lady.<br>Shall I still be love's house on the widdershin earth,<br>Woe to the windy masons at my shelter?<br>Love's house, they answer, and the tower death<br>Lie all unknowing of the grave sin-eater.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dylan+Thomas">Dylan Thomas</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373504" data-title="Do You Not Father Me de Dylan Thomas" data-description="Do you not father me, nor the erected arm For my tall tower's sake cast in her stone? Do you not mother me, nor, as I am, The lovers' house, lie suffering my stain? Do you not sister me, nor the erected crime For my tall turrets carry as your sin?..."></div> </div> </div>

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