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The Wasp Trap

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[THE WASP TRAP] by EDWARD THOMAS This moonlight makes The lovely lovelier Than ever before lakes And meadows were. And yet they are not, Though this their hour is, more Lovely than things that were not Lovely before. Nothing on earth, And in the heavens no star, For pure brightness is worth More than that jar, For wasps meant, now A star---long may it swing From the dead apple-bough, So glistening.
Title
The Wasp Trap
Author
Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)
Item date
1979
Content
Poem
Copyright
Copyright Edward Thomas, 1979, reproduced under licence from Faber and Faber Ltd.
Digital repository
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Repository name
ProQuest
Repository address URL
http://literature.proquest.com/
First line
This moonlight makes
Publication source
Edward Thomas Collected Poems
Publication editor
Thomas, George
Publishers
Faber and Faber
Publication place
London

Citation

“The Wasp Trap,” by Thomas, Edward (1878-1917). Copyright Edward Thomas, 1979, reproduced under licence from Faber and Faber Ltd. via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/2971.

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