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"The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage.
The wet centre is bottomless."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 27-28). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"An astounding crate full of air."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 12). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"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."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 1-6). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"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"
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 47-52). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"smile
As you find a rhythm
Working you, slow mile by mile,
Into your proper haunt
Somewhere, well out, beyond . . ."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 105-109). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"the habitual
Slow consolation
Of a dawdling engine,"
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 92-94). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"At closing time would go
In waders and peaked cap
Into the showery dark,
A dole-kept breadwinner
But a natural for work."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 11-15). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"Dawn-sniffing revenant,
Plodder through midnight rain,
Question me again."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 110-112). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"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, their blunt heads farting."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Death of a Naturalist (l. 27-30). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
"and wait and watch until
The fattening dots burst into nimble-
Swimming tadpoles."
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Death of a Naturalist (l. 13-15). . .
Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
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