Canal Bank Walk
by Patrick Kavanagh
Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me, that I do
The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal,
Grow with nature again as before I grew.
The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third
Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Алексей Плещеев – Есть дни, ни злоба, ни любовь
- Clarence by Shel Silverstein
- Алексей Толстой – Ты почто, злая кручинушка
- When I Met My Muse by William Stafford
- Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
- Candles by Sylvia Plath
- Prospect by Sylvia Plath
- His Confidence by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Степанов – Робот (Буква Р)
- In The Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats
- A Padlock for the Mouth by William Somervile
- An Enigma by William Cowper
- The Green Linnet by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet LI by William Shakespeare
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Конь
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
