Deaths and Entrances

Deaths and Entrances is a volume of poetry by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1946. Many of the poems in this collection dealt with the effects of World War II, which had ended only a year earlier. It became the best-known of his poetry collections.

Some of the poems contained in the volume have become classics, notably Fern Hill. The other poems in the collection are:


 * The conversation of prayers
 * A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
 * Poem in October
 * This side of the truth
 * To Others than You
 * Love in the Asylum
 * Unluckily for a death
 * The Hunchback in the Park
 * Into her lying down head
 * Paper and sticks
 * Deaths and Entrances
 * A Winter's Tale
 * On a Wedding Anniversary
 * There was a saviour
 * On the Marriage of a Virgin
 * In my craft or sullen art
 * Ceremony After a Fire Raid
 * Once below a time
 * When I woke
 * Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man aged a Hundred
 * Lie still, sleep becalmed
 * Vision and Prayer
 * Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
 * Holy Spring