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
- The Wold Waggon by William Barnes
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- Как на Масляной неделе
- A Lament For Adonis by Sappho
- Closed Path by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Brief History of Special Education
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снова печь барахлит, тут рублей не жалей
- Allegro Maestoso by William Ernest Henley
- A Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- Mystic Trumpeter, The. by Walt Whitman
- The Coin by Sara Teasdale
- Argus poem – Alexander Pope
- SURVIVAL by Satish Verma
- Eyes And Tears poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
