<P> "And death shall have no dominion" is a poem written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914--1953). The title comes from St. Paul's epistle to the Romans (6: 9). </P> <P> In early 1933 Thomas befriended Bert Trick, a grocer who worked in the Uplands area of Swansea . Trick was an amateur poet who had several poems published in local papers . In spring 1933 Trick suggested the two men both write a poem on the subject of' immortality' . Trick's poem, which was published in a newspaper the following year, contained the refrain "For death is not the end ." In 1933, in a notebook marked' April', Thomas wrote the poem "And death shall have no dominion". Trick persuaded him to seek a publisher and in May of that year it was printed in New English Weekly . </P>

Who wrote and death shall have no dominion