by Dylan Thomas Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns An...
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Byline: Ceri JonesALMOST 60 years ago a Carmarthenshire farm inspired Dylan Thomas to write one of his best-known poems.In Fern Hill the poet looks nostalgically back at his past when as a young child 'happy as the grass was green' he had stayed on his aunt and uncle's farm near ...
Fern Hill, poem by Dylan Thomas that evokes the joy and the inevitable loss of the world of childhood. It was first published in 1946 in his collection Deaths and Entrances. “Fern Hill” is narrated by the mature poet, who reflects systematically on the