Thomas – as seen by walter de la mare

Walter de la Mare described his friend Thomas:  “His face was fair, long and rather narrow, and in its customary gravity wore an expression rather distant and detached.  There was a glint of gold in his sun-baked hair.  The eyes, long-lashed and stooping a little beneath the full, rounded lids, were of a clear dark blue. […]  The lips were finely lined and wide, the chin square.”

Foreword to Thomas’s posthumous Collected Poems (1921)

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