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
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- This we Have Now by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Зинаида Александрова – Зимняя песенка
- Алексей Толстой – Пусть тот, чья честь не без укора
- Омар Хайям – Люблю вино, ловлю веселья миг
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
- The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
- In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Tiger039s Roar
- At Dover by William Lisle Bowles
- Taking Off by Satish Verma
- The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats
- The Geography of the House by W H Auden
- Plaidoirie for a “Prince” of Jaffna by T. Wignesan
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
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