Peace
by Patrick Kavanagh
And sometimes I am sorry when the grass
Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows
And the cocksfoot leans across the rutted cart-pass
That I am not the voice of country fellows
Who now are standing by some headland talking
Of turnips and potatoes or young corn
Of turf banks stripped for victory.
Here Peace is still hawking
His coloured combs and scarves and beads of horn.
Upon a headland by a whinny hedge
A hare sits looking down a leaf-lapped furrow
There’s an old plough upside-down on a weedy ridge
And someone is shouldering home a saddle-harrow.
Out of that childhood country what fools climb
To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time?
End of the poem
15 random poems
- After Rain by P. K. Page
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- Absolution by Siegfried Sassoon
- Nocturnal Vigils poem – Alfred Austin
- The sky has never seen such a moon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Там были генеральши, были жёны офицеров
- Николай Гумилев – Они спустились до реки
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- A Woman Waits for Me. by Walt Whitman
- The Princess (prologue) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Василий Тредиаковский – В белости ее румяной
- Владимир Маяковский – Добьем! (РОСТА №745)
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- Ок Мельникова – Вечные ценности
Some external links:
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).
