British & Irish
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Seamus Heaney [Heaney, Seamus]

V An old man’s hands, like soft paws rowing forward, groped for and warded off the air ahead. Barney Murphy shuffled on the concrete. Master Murphy. I heard the weakened ...
( Category: British & Irish May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Seamus Heaney [Heaney, Seamus]

2. CONKERS All along the dank, sunk, rock-floored lane To the acropolis in Sparta, we couldn’t help Tramping on burst shells and crunching down The high-gloss horse-chestnuts. I thought of ...
( Category: British & Irish May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-04-21 | Author:Seamus Heaney

Get him, take him live or dead, every man fall to. Draw and quarter, pike and spit him, none will blame you. Still the horsemen followed across the north of ...
( Category: British & Irish May 25,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:William Butler Yeats

John Shawe-Taylor There is a portrait of John Shawe-Taylor by a celebrated painter in the Dublin Municipal Gallery, but painted in the midst of a movement of the arts that ...
( Category: European April 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-03 | Author:Various Contributors

Sir Henry Newbolt The Dancers (During a Great Battle, 1916) The floors are slippery with blood: The world gyrates too. God is good That while His wind blows out the ...
( Category: British & Irish March 4,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:Alice Oswald [Alice Oswald]

Jan Coo! Jan Coo! have you any idea what goes into water? I have verified the calibration records have you monitored for colour and turbidity? I’m continually sending light signals ...
( Category: British & Irish December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-12-06 | Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

And strike his being into bounds, And, moved thro’ life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love, a closer link Betwixt us and ...
( Category: British & Irish November 24,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:John Donne

A FEVER 9–12 Or if, when thou, the world’s soul, go’st … Petrarch wrote that the death of his mistress had left the earth without a sun, and destroyed the ...
( Category: Love Poems November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-02-05 | Author:Samuel Coleridge

To Nature It may indeed be phantasy, when I Essay I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings; And trace in leaves and ...
( Category: British & Irish November 24,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Robert Browning

Apparent Failure ‘We shall soon lose a celebrated building.’ Paris Newspaper I No, for I’ll save it! Seven years since, I passed through Paris, stopped a day To see the ...
( Category: Renaissance November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-23 | Author:Ted Hughes [Ted Hughes]

But now they draw off. Lumb feels a reprieve, a lightening Though the cattle continue to mill round and press closer As if still multiplying out of the earth itself. ...
( Category: British & Irish November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-22 | Author:Philip Larkin [Philip Larkin]

And the countryside not caring: The place-names all hazed over With flowering grasses, and fields Shadowing Domesday lines Under wheat’s restless silence; The differently-dressed servants With tiny rooms in huge ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-04 | Author:Philip Larkin [Larkin, Philip]

To compare his life and mine Makes me feel a swine: Oh, no one can deny That Arnold is less selfish than I. But wait, not so fast: Is there ...
( Category: British & Irish November 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-20 | Author:Seamus Heaney [Seamus Heaney]

Came to life. Passengers Flocked to the kerb like agitated rooks Around a rookery, all go But undecided. At which point the inspector Who ruled the roost in bus station ...
( Category: British & Irish November 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Seamus Heaney [Seamus Heaney]

I dreamt and drifted. All seemed to run to waste As down a swirl of mucky, glittering flood Strange polyp floated like a huge corrupt Magnolia bloom, surreal as a ...
( Category: British & Irish November 22,2014 )