Objects
Viewing Record 1 of 1Switch Views: Lightbox | Image List | List
The force that drives the water through the rocks
Object Type: Print
Artist/Maker: Richards, Ceri
Date: 1965
Media/Materials: Lithograph
Dimensions: image size: 43.5 cm x 59 cm; overall: 73 cm x 85 cm
Classification: Print
Description:
Abstract composition featuring imagery of hands, feet, flowers and abstract shapes. Mounted on a canvas mount.
From Twelve Lithographs for Six Poems by Dylan Thomas
Edition 28/60
Based on this poem -
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Dylan Thomas - 1914-1953
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.
The force that drives the water through the rocks
Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams
Turns mine to wax.
And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins
How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.
The hand that whirls the water in the pool
Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind
Hauls my shroud sail.
And I am dumb to tell the hanging man
How of my clay is made the hangman's lime.
The lips of time leech to the fountain head;
Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores.
And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind
How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.
And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.
Object Number: ABDRG590