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
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хлебопечение
- Алишер Навои – Луна в носилках, о постой
- As Vanquish’d Erin by Thomas Moore
- Bombardment by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Глазков – Быть хочешь постоянно пьяным
- Late realizations by Tanisha Avarsekar
- A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books by Robert Frost
- Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston by William Cowper
- After The Visit by Thomas Hardy
- Falling Asleep by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ode to My Guitar by William Wright Harris
- Breadfruit by Philip Larkin
- I Stood With the Dead by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
- Staffa poem – John Keats poems
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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).
