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| 1731. | Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney | | As a child, they could not keep me from wells
And old pumps with buckets and windlasses.
I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells
Of wate... |
| 1732. | The Perch by Seamus Heaney | | Perch on their water perch hung in the clear Bann River
Near the clay bank in alder dapple and waver,
Perch they called ‘grunts’, little flood... |
| 1733. | Postscript by Seamus Heaney | | And some time make the time to drive out west
Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore,
In September or October, when the wind
And the light are w... |
| 1734. | Keeping Going by Seamus Heaney | | The piper coming from far away is you
With a whitewash brush for a sporran
Wobbling round you, a kitchen chair
Upside down on your shoulder, your r... |
| 1735. | Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication by Seamus Heaney | | 1. Sunlight
There was a sunlit absence.
The helmeted pump in the yard
heated its iron,
water honeyed
in the slung bucket
and the sun stood
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| 1736. | Exposure by Seamus Heaney | | It is December in Wicklow:
Alders dripping, birches
Inheriting the last light,
The ash tree cold to look at.
A comet that was lost
Should be vi... |
| 1737. | Rite of Spring by Seamus Heaney | | So winter closed its fist
And got it stuck in the pump.
The plunger froze up a lump
In its throat, ice founding itself
Upon iron. The handle
Pa... |
| 1738. | A Silly Poem by Spike Milligan | | Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B? ... |
| 1739. | Bump by Spike Milligan | | Things that go 'bump' in the night
Should not really give one a fright.
It's the hole in each ear
That lets in the fear,
That, and the absence of ... |
| 1740. | Porridge by Spike Milligan | | Why is there no monument
To Porridge in our land?
It it's good enough to eat,
It's good enough to stand!
On a plinth in London
A statue we shou... |
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