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
- Conversation 4: On Place by Rosmarie Waldrop
- Flora by William Morris
- Magdalen poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Гавриил Державин – Анакреоново удовольствие
- Михаил Лермонтов – Война
- Blithe Dreams Arise To Greet Us by William Ernest Henley
- Огюст Барбье – Джин
- On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
- Владимир Корнилов – В Македонии
- Silver Trails by Satish Verma
- Bound for your distant home poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Song—A Lass wi’ a Tocher by Robert Burns
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Бундур – Папа пристал
- Ten Years After by Graham Rowlands
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