The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood

This Eastertide call into mind the men,

Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should

Have gathered them and will do never again.

• "The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

Poems (selection)

• "As the team's head-brass"
• "The Unknown"
• "But These Things Also"
• "Tears"
• "The Lane"
• "And You, Helen"
• "This Is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong"
• "The Other"
• "March The Third"
• "Out In The Dark"
• "The New House"
• "When First"
• "Adlestrop"
• "Celandine"
• "The Manor Farm"
• "Melancholy"
• "A Private"
• "Lob"
• "Tall Nettles"
• "When First I Came Here"
• "A Cat"
• "Gone, Gone Again"
• "Up In The Wind"
• "Rain"
• "The Owl"
• "Old Man"
• " 'Home' "
• " lights out"*

Poetry

• Six Poems, under pseudonym Edward Eastaway, Pear Tree Press, 1916.
• Poems, Holt, 1917.
• Last Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1918.
• Collected Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1920.
• Two Poems, Ingpen & Grant, 1927.
• The Poems of Edward Thomas, R. George Thomas (ed), Oxford University Press, 1978
• Edward Thomas: A Mirror of England, Elaine Wilson (ed), Paul & Co., 1985.
• The Poems of Edward Thomas, Peter Sacks (ed), Handsel Books, 2003.
• The Annotated Collected Poems, Edna Longley (ed), Bloodaxe Books, 2008.

Fiction

• The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (novel), 1913

Essays

• Horae Solitariae, Dutton, 1902.
• Oxford, A & C Black, 1903.
• Beautiful Wales, Black, 1905.
• The Heart of England, Dutton, 1906.
• The South Country, Dutton, 1906, Tuttle, 1993.
• Rest and Unrest, Dutton, 1910.
• Light and Twilight, Duckworth, 1911.
• The Last Sheaf, Cape, 1928.

• In 1918, W. H. Davies published his poem Killed In Action (Edward Thomas) to mark the personal loss of his close friend and mentor.

• Many poems about Edward Thomas by other poets can be found in the books Elected Friends: Poems For and About Edward Thomas, edited by Anne Harvey, and Branch-Lines: Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry, edited by Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn.

• In his 1980 autobiography, Ways of Escape, Graham Greene references Thomas's poem "The Other" (about a man who seems to be following his own double from hotel to hotel) in describing his own experience of being bedeviled by an imposter.

• Edward Thomas's Collected Poems was one of Andrew Motion's ten picks for the poetry section of the "Guardian Essential Library" in October 2002.

• In his 2002 novel Youth, J.M. Coetzee has his main character, intrigued by the survival of pre-modernist forms in British poetry, ask himself: "What happened to the ambitions of poets here in Britain? Have they not digested the news that Edward Thomas and his world are gone for ever?" In contrast, Irish critic Edna Longley writes that Thomas's Lob, a 150-line poem, "strangely preempts The Waste Land through verses like: "This is tall Tom that bore / The logs in, and with Shakespeare in the hall / Once talked".

• In his 1995 novel, Borrowed Time, the author Robert Goddard bases the home of the main character at Greenhayes in the village of Steep, where Thomas lived from 1913. Goddard weaves some of the feeling from Thomas's poems into the mood of the story and also uses some quotes from Thomas's works.

• Will Self's 2006 novel, The Book of Dave, has a quote from The South Country as the book's epigraph:

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding sheet and her worms to fill in the graves, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers ... as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.

• The children's author Linda Newbery has published a novel, "Lob" (David Fickling Books, 2010, illustrated by Pam Smy) inspired by the Edward Thomas poem of the same name and containing oblique references to other work by Thomas.