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''The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless.''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 27-28). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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''An astounding crate full of air.''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 12). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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''We have no prairies
To slice a big sun at evening—
Everywhere the eye concedes to
Encroaching horizon,
Is wooed into the cyclops' eye
Of a tarn.''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 1-6). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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''It was a day of cold
Raw silence, wind-blown
Surplice and soutane:
Rained-on, flower-laden
Coffin after coffin
Seemed to float from the door''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 47-52). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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''smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt
Somewhere, well out, beyond . . .''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 105-109). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
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''the habitual
Slow consolation
Of a dawdling engine,''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 92-94). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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''At closing time would go
In waders and peaked cap
Into the showery dark,
A dole-kept breadwinner
But a natural for work.''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 11-15). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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''Dawn-sniffing revenant,
Plodder through midnight rain,
Question me again.''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 110-112). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
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Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked
On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:
The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat
Poised like mud grenades, ...
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Death of a Naturalist (l. 27-30). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus...
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''and wait and watch until
The fattening dots burst into nimble-
Swimming tadpoles.''
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Death of a Naturalist (l. 13-15). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus...
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