Bogland (Seamus Heaney Poem)
for T. P. Flanagan We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening-- Everywhere the eye concedes to ...
for T. P. Flanagan We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening-- Everywhere the eye concedes to ...
I Some day I will go to Aarhus To see his peat-brown head, The mild pods of his eye-lids, His ...
As if he had been poured in tar, he lies on a pillow of turf and seems to weep the ...
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping ...
(i) introduction his home in ruins his parents gone frederick seeks to reclaim his throne to the golden mountain he ...
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
Walking around the parkway, cut through the wooded place long after this land was a lake, long after the bog ...
Processes of the land, of the water, the air of plants, of animals, of man natural processes, those of man, ...
Field trip On the bus Down the road To see science The bog Sucked my leg Into the sphagnum Florescent ...
What is it about irises in the garden whether blue flag or yellow, deep purple, white with red why do ...
Play that my knee was a calico mare Saddled and bridled for Bumpville; Leap to the back of this steed, ...
Like a Dog with a bottle, fast ti'd to his tail, Like Vermin in a trap, or a Thief in ...
Some Rainbow -- coming from the Fair! Some Vision of the World Cashmere -- I confidently see! Or else a ...
It will be Summer -- eventually. Ladies -- with parasols -- Sauntering Gentlemen -- with Canes -- And little Girls ...
Her smile was shaped like other smiles -- The Dimples ran along -- And still it hurt you, as some ...
A Burdock -- clawed my Gown -- Not Burdock's -- blame -- But mine -- Who went too near The ...
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- Too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd ...
An ingenuity too astonishing to be quite fortuitous is this bog full of sundews, sphagnum- lined and shaped like a ...
(For G. H.) Say, does that stupid earth Where they have laid her, Bind still her sullen mirth, Mirth which ...
in these red labyrinths of London I find that I have chosen the strangest of all callings, save that, in ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
NAE heathen name shall I prefix, Frae Pindus or Parnassus; Auld Reekie dings them a' to sticks, For rhyme-inspiring lasses. ...
Let us have madness openly. O men Of my generation. Let us follow The footsteps of this slaughtered age: See ...
'Twas in the village of Ruily there lived a bonnie lass With red, pouting lips which few lasses could surpass, ...
Bonnie Clara, will you go to the bonnie Sidlaw hills And pu' the blooming heather, and drink from their rills? ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Oh, lay my ashes on the wind That blows across the sea. And I shall meet a fisherman Out of ...
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? ...
God had called us, and we came; Our loved Earth to ashes left; Heaven was a neighbor's house, Open to ...
You would not believe, would you That I came from good Welsh stock? That I was purer blooded than the ...
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