Patrick Kavanagh Love Poems

  • 1.
    Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal
    Pouring redemption for me, that I do
    The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the banal,
    Grow with nature again as before I grew.
    ...
  • 2.
    We have tested and tasted too much, lover-
    Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.
    But here in the Advent-darkened room
    Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea
    ...
  • 3.
    I
    Clay is the word and clay is the flesh
    Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move
    Along the side-fall of the hill - Maguire and his men.
    ...
  • 4.
    Every old man I see
    Reminds me of my father
    When he had fallen in love with death
    One time when sheaves were gathered.
    ...
  • 5.
    And sometimes I am sorry when the grass
    Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows
    And the cocksfoot leans across the rutted cart-pass
    That I am not the voice of country fellows
    ...
  • 6.
    O stony grey soil of Monaghan
    The laugh from my love you thieved;
    You took the gay child of my passion
    And gave me your clod-conceived.
    ...
  • 7.
    They laughed at one I loved-
    The triangular hill that hung
    Under the Big Forth. They said
    That I was bounded by the whitethorn hedges
    ...
Total 7 Love Poems by Patrick Kavanagh

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