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
- Recollection of the Arabian Nights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Meeting by William Butler Yeats
- To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho
- The Fable by Yvor Winters
- Robert Burns: Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky:
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Magdalen poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой)
- The Floods by Rudyard Kipling
- In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu
- A Nativity by William Butler Yeats
- The Wizard Way poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Седакова – Маленькое посвящение Владимиру Ивановичу Хвостину
- Time’s Weariness poem – Alfred Austin
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
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