Canal Bank Walk
by Patrick Kavanagh
Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
Pouring redemption for me, that I do
The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal,
Grow with nature again as before I grew.
The bright stick trapped, the breeze adding a third
Party to the couple kissing on an old seat,
And a bird gathering materials for the nest for the Word
Eloquently new and abandoned to its delirious beat.
O unworn world enrapture me, encapture me in a web
Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a beech,
Feed the gaping need of my senses, give me ad lib
To pray unselfconsciously with overflowing speech
For this soul needs to be honoured with a new dress woven
From green and blue things and arguments that cannot be proven.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Хомяков – Русская песня
- Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away by William Shakespeare
- Nigra Sum poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
- Teignmouth: “Some Doggerel,” Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan by Mike Yuan
- Old Times by Rixa white
- Here War Is Simple by W H Auden
- Николай Гербель – На смерть воробья
- Зинаида Александрова – Ромашки
- Fault by Sara Teasdale
- Tyburn by Ramesh Anand
- England’s Answer by Rudyard Kipling
- Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father by Robert Burns
- A Jewish Family In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine by William Wordsworth
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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).
