Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle ( a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain ) and is the most famous work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, it was written in 1947 when Thomas was in Florence with his family. Today, the poem is recognized as one of the most famous poems of the 20th Century.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
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.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Read by Shane Morris

Composer: Joachim Heinrich
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