Epic
by Patrick Kavanagh
I have lived in important places, times
When great events were decided, who owned
That half a rood of rock, a no-man’s land
Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.
I heard the Duffys shouting “Damn your soul”
And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seen
Step the plot defying blue cast-steel—
“Here is the march along these iron stones”
That was the year of the Munich bother. Which
Was more important? I inclined
To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin
Til Homer’s ghost came whispering to my mind
He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To a Historian. by Walt Whitman
- Яков Полонский – На Женевском озере
- Abyss by Pierre Reverdy
- Orlando Furioso Canto 19 by Ludovico Ariosto
- The Bonnie House O’ Airly poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Private Property
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти В. Башкина
- Bogland by Seamus Heaney
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Sonnet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Old Boy poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Morpheus poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Маяковский – Вам
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
