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
- Олег Григорьев – Двустишия
- Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin
- The Other Two by Sylvia Plath
- Little angel by Vladimir Marku
- The Flower poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A Message To America
- Омар Хайям – Лучше пить и веселых красавиц ласкать
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
- The Scratch by Raymond Carver
- Good-bye by Walter de la Mare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы бдительны, мы тайн не разболтаем
- A Birthday Song. To S. G. by Sidney Lanier
- Валерий Брюсов – Из-за облака скользящий
- Владимир Орлов – Летит корабль
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
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