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
- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- The Death-Bed by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Заболоцкий – Лесная сторожка
- Владимир Маяковский – Долг Украине
- Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra by Walter Savage Landor
- Василий Жуковский – Эолова арфа
- Edgar Allan Poe by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Haymakers Song
- Tree and Sky by Siegfried Sassoon
- To A Young Girl by William Butler Yeats
- CBSE Education: Teaching Creative Learning
- A Token by Robert Creeley
- Олег Бундур – Сорока
- A Letter Home by Siegfried Sassoon
- Power Of Love by Valentine Mbagu
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