R. S. Thomas The Bright Field I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you. I hope you all enjoy this beautiful poem by Welsh poet, R. S. Thomas.
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This poem by the prolific Welsh poet R.S. Thomas came to mind during some precious moments earlier this week, when my darling five-year-old son Finbar was playing in the other room and I heard him softly sing to himself? his toy cars? his wooden blocks? R.S. Thomas reads his poem "The Bright Field." The Bright Field - R. S. Thomas I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realise now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after A poem by R.S. Thomas read by Nicola Davies.The Bright FieldI have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small fieldfor a while, and gone my wayand forgo.
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Poem of the Day: The Bright Field by RS Thomas | The Herald THAT great Welsh cleric-poet R S Thomas seemed often to agonise about his faith, but these two little reflections by him show him. The Bright Field by R. S. Thomas Original Language English I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying The Bright Field - RS Thomas. I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have to possess it. Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after Recognized as one of the leading poets of modern Wales, R. S. Thomas writes about the people of his country in a style that some critics have compared to that nation's harsh and rugged terrain. Using few of the common poetic devices, Thomas's work exhibits what Alan Brownjohn of the New Statesman calls a "cold, telling purity of language."
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The Bright Field, by R. S. Thomas | Poeticous: poems, essays, and short stories R. S. Thomas The Bright Field I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl of great price, the one field that had treasure in it. I realize now that I must give all that I have Life goals, to be an old poet in a stone cottage, with a door that you can lean on (always the best kind). A Bright Field -A poem by R.S. Thomas read by Nicola Davies. The Bright Field I have seen.
R. S. Thomas Ronald Stuart Thomas (29 March 1913 - 25 September 2000), published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. Cif belief Religion This article is more than 13 years old RS Thomas Luke Coppen The great Welsh poet-priest didn't aim to soothe, but to unsettle, with an unflinching record of his inner life.
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The Bright Field I have seen the sun break through to illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the. R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who spent much of his early life in British port towns. When he was ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church, he The Bright Field by RS Thomas (1975)Published in Laboratories of the SpiritI have seen the sun break throughto illuminate a small fieldfor a while, and gone.
