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
- Another On The Same poem – John Milton poems
- Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe
- Владимир Гиляровский – Песня Дона
- An Irish Airman Forsees His Death by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
- The Douglas Tragedy poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: Ploughman’s Life, The:
- Love
- Владимир Маяковский – Песня-молния
- Sonnet 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Седакова – Дикий шиповник
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope
- Sweet Colonnade by Vasil Slavov
- Ольга Седакова – Selva selvaggia
- Life by Walter William Safar
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