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Poetry of Ireland  (Irish poets writing in English)

Posted by Tony Dermody
on:    12 January 2004

The Lost Heifer
Austin Clarke

 

The Book of Irish Verse: An Anthology of Irish Poetry
edited by John Montague
London: The Macmillan Company, 1976

When the black herds of the rain were grazing
In the gap of the pure cold wind
And the watery haze of the hazel
Brought her into my mind,
I thought of the last honey by the water
That no hive can find.

Brightness was drenching through the branches
When she wandered again,
Turning the silver out of dark grasses
Where the skylark had lain,
And her voice coming softly over the meadow
Was the mist becoming rain.


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Poetry of Ireland   (Irish poets writing in English)

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