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
- Яков Полонский – Цветок
- Олег Бундур – Барашки
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Curse Upon Edward by Thomas Gray
- Нина Пикулева – Ой, да чья ж это девчушка
- Наум Коржавин – Двадцатые годы
- Aliter poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
- Алексей Плещеев – Песня
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- Robert Burns: Raving Winds Around Her Blowing: I composed these verses on Miss Isabella M’Leod of Raza, alluding to her feelings on the death of her sister, and the still more melancholy death of her sister’s husband, the late Earl of Loudoun, who shot himself out of sheer heart-break at some mortifications he suffered, owing to the deranged state of his finances.-R.B., 1971.
- Moon poems by Raj Arumugam
- Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The by William Allingham
- Николай Глазков – Дождь
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Троянки (перевод)
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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).
