Having To Live in the Country (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
Back once again in wild, wet MonaghanExiled from thought and feeling,A mean brutality reigns:It is really a horrible position to ...
Monday, March 8, 2021
Patrick Kavanagh Poems (21 Poems)
On An Apple-Ripe September Morning (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
On an apple-ripe September morningThrough the mist-chill fields I wentWith a pitch-fork on my shoulderLess for use than for devilment.The ...
On Raglan Road (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
On Raglan Road on an autumn day I met her first and knewThat her dark hair would weave a snare ...
April Dusk (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
April dusk It is tragic to be a poet now And not a lover Paradised under the mutest bough. I look through my window ...
March (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
There's a wind blowing Cold through the corridors, A ghost-wind, The flapping of defeated wings, A hell-fantasy From meadows damned To eternal April And listening, listening To the ...
Innocence (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
They laughed at one I loved-The triangular hill that hungUnder the Big Forth. They saidThat I was bounded by the ...
Inniskeen Road: July Evening (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
The bicycles go by in twos and threes -There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn to-night,And there's the half-talk code ...
Gospel (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
We are the children of light, Wise, not companioned By goats In a condemned graveyard. Backward blowing Blizzards of memory Flatten out The genealogies. But here a point, The ...
Kerr’s Ass (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
We borrowed the loan of Kerr's assTo go to Dundalk with butter,Brought him home the evening before the marketAnd exile ...
To the Man After the Harrow (Patrick Kavanagh Poems)
Now leave the check-reins slack,The seed is flying far today -The seed like stars against the blackEternity of April clay.This ...