Tag: history
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The Halt of Hunger
Mist with dawn snaked Filling lanes like molten gold In roaring through blacksmith’s mold Web-hung shack of dirty stone, ivy-draped and shadow throne’d. Abound hunger Fallow fields festered farmers found fetid Spuds spoiling thousands and nothing yielded They raked.
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The Gilded Horde
Little I have known of love And less of mirth besides But on the windswept plain where the gilt horde rove On sands unkissed by tides. Little I have known of idling And more of the driven cob Left beside the temple writhing The spoils split to the mob. Little I have known of culture…
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Vision of Antique Province
Ptolemaic maps of Ireland, forts and shipeating cliffs Clothless bard kernes carving out vexing stone glyphs Satires they penned could legacies strip Women faming as chiefs and warriors, Corn kings denippled and drowned in pits The bog the bog that gives the fire, the bog with dead is rich Benbulben of the doors is the…
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Conflict
Did not sleep well last night Great din, gungaless, from the parlor Sherston’s mother communing with spirits Young Hamo dead at Gallipoli Did Eliott’s Aeschylus know him? Severely annotated copy of Goodbye To All That Melancholies of a fox-hunting man By war, Men harden Mars the sharpen Bard birther Mary Arden in Angland since Domesday.…
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Time
Minutes courting hours, men counting time Elaborate astronomical devices Saturnian monoliths, becogged, wrought of black iron and gold They say Time is running out Out of where? Frogs who when submerged in boiling water leap Content to languish in water brought slowly to boil Great fire of time burning us away Slow to start, our…
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