Door Into the Dark by Seamus Heaney

Author:Seamus Heaney [Heaney, Seamus]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry, European
ISBN: 9781466864085
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2014-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

Victorian Guitar

For David Hammond

Inscribed ‘Belonged to Louisa Catherine Coe before her marriage to John Charles Smith, March 1852.’

I expected the lettering to carry

The date of the gift, a kind of christening:

This is more like the plate on a coffin.

Louisa Catherine Smith could not be light.

Far more than a maiden name

Was cancelled by him on the first night.

I believe he cannot have known your touch

Like this instrument – for clearly

John Charles did not hold with fingering –

Which is obviously a lady’s:

The sound-box trim as a girl in stays,

The neck right for the smallest span.

Did you even keep track of it as a wife?

Do you know the man who has it now

Is giving it the time of its life?

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