Love In The Asylum

Dylan ThomasDylan Thomas

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A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
                    A girl mad as birdsBolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
                    Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering cloudsYet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
                    At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.                    She has come possessed
Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
                    Possessed by the skiesShe sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
                    Yet raves at her will
On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears.And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
                    I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.
Dylan Thomas
About the poet

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales. His father was an English Literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite Shakespeare, fortifying Thomas's love for the rhythmic ballads of Gerard Manley Hopki…

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