And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan’t crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
— “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas
another one i redid in an attempt to make it more visually cohesive. though maybe i should have left it be. thats the nature of death, huh?
Just Take My Wallet, Jack Stauber | Tomcat Disposables, Will Wood | O'Death, Frances Molina | Crush, Richard Siken | Drinking Song, Haley Heynderickx | Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas | The Garden of Death, Hugo Simberg | In Our Bedroom After The War, Stars | Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost | My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up The Task, Jon Pineda | Leaves From The Vine (Little Soldier Boy), Mako Iwamatsu | Poem, Langston Hughes | Vanitas – Still Life, Pieter Claesz | I Know The End, Phoebe Bridgers | | We, Made of Bone, Mahtem Shiferraw | Nine, Sleeping At Last
Dylan Thomas, Vision and Prayer, [I/1], in Poesie e racconti, Edited by Ariodante Marianni, «Nuova Universale Einaudi» 222, Einaudi, Torino, 1996, p. 184