Alun Lewis (1 July 1915 – 5 March 1944), was a poet. Although he was born in South Wales, he wrote in English only. He is one of the best-known English-language poets of the Second World War
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“And we talked of girls, and dropping bombs on Rome,
And thought of the quiet dead and the loud celebrities
Exhorting us to slaughter,”
—Alun Lewis (1915–1944)
“but now it is the rain
Possesses us entirely, the twilight and the rain.”
—Alun Lewis (1915–1944)
“And he was lost among the waves,
His ship rolled helpless in the sea,
The fourth month of his voyage
He shouted grievously
‘Beloved, do not think of me.’”
—Alun Lewis (1915–1944)
“All this slowness, all this hardness,
The nearness that is waiting in my bed,
The gradual self-effacement of the dead.”
—Alun Lewis (1915–1944)