<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373577" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I Woke</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I woke, the town spoke.<br>Birds and clocks and cross bells<br>Dinned aside the coiling crowd,<br>The reptile profligates in a flame,<br>Spoilers and pokers of sleep,<br>The next-door sea dispelled<br>Frogs and satans and woman-luck,<br>While a man outside with a billhook,<br>Up to his head in his blood,<br>Cutting the morning off,<br>The warm-veined double of Time<br>And his scarving beard from a book,<br>Slashed down the last snake as though<br>It were a wand or subtle bough,<br>Its tongue peeled in the wrap of a leaf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Every morning I make,<br>God in bed, good and bad,<br>After a water-face walk,<br>The death-stagged scatter-breath<br>Mammoth and sparrowfall<br>Everybody's earth.<br>Where birds ride like leaves and boats like ducks<br>I heard, this morning, waking,<br>Crossly out of the town noises<br>A voice in the erected air,<br>No prophet-progeny of mine,<br>Cry my sea town was breaking.<br>No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,<br>I drew the white sheet over the islands<br>And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.</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=373577" data-title="When I Woke de Dylan Thomas" data-description="When I woke, the town spoke. Birds and clocks and cross bells Dinned aside the coiling crowd, The reptile profligates in a flame, Spoilers and pokers of sleep, The next-door sea dispelled Frogs and satans and woman-luck, While a man outside with a..."></div> </div> </div>

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