Shancoduff
by Patrick Kavanagh
My black hills have never seen the sun rising,
Eternally they look north towards Armagh.
Lot’s wife would not be salt if she had been
Incurious as my black hills that are happy
When dawn whitens Glassdrummond chapel.
My hills hoard the bright shillings of March
While the sun searches in every pocket.
They are my Alps and I have climbed the Matterhorn
With a sheaf of hay for three perishing calves
In the field under the Big Forth of Rocksavage.
The sleety winds fondle the rushy beards of Shancoduff
While the cattle-drovers sheltering in the Featherna Bush
Look up and say: ‘Who owns them hungry hills
That the water-hen and snipe must have forsaken?
A poet? Then by heavens he must be poor.’
I hear and is my heart not badly shaken?
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Identity of Images by Robert Desnos
- Вера Полозкова – Детство
- I Have News For You by Tony Hoagland
- Calypso by W H Auden
- Жан де Лафонтен – Безумец и Мудрец
- Twins by Vinko Kalinić
- Memory As a Hearing Aid by Tony Hoagland
- Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
- They Would Love To See Me Dead by Mahmoud Darwish
- Sonet 50 by William Alexander
- On the Danger of Procrastination by Abraham Cowley
- Owl by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 11 poem – John Milton poems
- Power
- “Although no stupid scoffer, I” poem – Alfred Austin
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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).
