Seamus Heaney 1966-1987

'Between my finger and my thumb/The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.'

Digging

1 of 53

'Daily it sweltered in the punishing sun'

Death of a Naturalist

2 of 53

'You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet/Like thickened wine.'

Blackberry-Picking

3 of 53

'By God, the old man could handle a spade./Just like his old man.'

Digging

4 of 53

'His shoulders globed like a full sail strung/Between the shafts and the furrow.'

Follower

5 of 53

'They were yellow in the sun and brown/In rain.'

Death of a Naturalist

6 of 53

'It wasn't fair/That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.'

Blackberry-Picking

7 of 53

'I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake'

Follower

8 of 53

'Puddling through muck in a deep drain.'

Poem

9 of 53

'Snowdrops/And candles soothed the bedside'

Mid-Term Break

10 of 53

'No kitchens on the run, no striking camp.'

Requiem for the Croppies

11 of 53

'Counting bells knelling classes to a close.'

Mid-Term Break

12 of 53

'the first hill in the world'

Anahorish

13 of 53

'Rain and hay and woods on the air'

Night Drive

14 of 53

'And square the circle: four walls and a ring.'

Poem

15 of 53

'The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.'

Requiem for the Croppies

16 of 53

'A four foot box, a foot for every year.'

Mid-Term Break

17 of 53

'The hum and gulp of the thresher'

The Wife's Tale

18 of 53

'Your ordinariness was renewed there'

Night Drive

19 of 53

'my ear swallowing/his fabulous, biblical dismissal,/that tongue of chosen people'

The Other Side

20 of 53

'soft gradient/of consonant, vowel meadow'

Anahorish

21 of 53

'They lay in the ring of their own crusts and dregs/Smoking and saying nothing.'

The Wife's Tale

22 of 53

'He was a minnow with hooks/Tearing her open.'

Limbo

23 of 53

'A loosening gravity,/Christ weighing by his hands.'

Westering

24 of 53

'The cap, noose and girdle'

The Tollund Man

25 of 53

'She waded in under/The sign of her cross.'

Limbo

26 of 53

'Now she dusts the board/with a goose's wing.'

Sunlight

27 of 53

'Your side of the house, I believe,/hardly rule by the book at all.'

The Other Side

28 of 53

'Unhappy and at home'

The Tollund Man

29 of 53

'The cobbles of the yard/Lit pale as eggs.'

Westering

30 of 53

'As if he had been poured/in tar, he lies/on a pillow of turf'

The Grauballe Man

31 of 53

'wet fern of her hair'

Strange Fruit

32 of 53

'I shouldered a kind of manhood'

Funeral Rites

33 of 53

'A gash breaking open the ferny bed'

Act of Union

34 of 53

'cold as a swan's foot/or a wet swamp root'

The Grauballe Man

35 of 53

'warbling along on powerful tyres'

The Toome Road

36 of 53

'the tick of two clocks'

Sunlight

37 of 53

'their dough-white hands/shackled in rosary beads'

Funeral Rites

38 of 53

'She came every morning to draw water/Like an old bat'

A Drink of Water

39 of 53

'I am still imperially/Male, leaving you with the pain'

Act of Union

40 of 53

'Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible/Beheaded girl, outstaring aze'

Strange Fruit

41 of 53

'Sowers of seed, creators of headstones'

The Toome Road

42 of 53

'a dole-kept breadwinner'

Casualty

43 of 53

'A few lonely streetlamps among the fields'

The Strand at Lough Beg

44 of 53

'The wintry haw is burning out of season'

The Haw Lantern

45 of 53

'slow diminuendo as it filled'

A Drink of Water

46 of 53

'Acrid, brassy, genital, ejected'

The Strand at Lough Beg

47 of 53

'Kept its distance like a bright-decked stars-ship.'

The Milk Factory

48 of 53

'the words of our traditional cures and charms/to heal dumbness and avert the evil eye.'

From the Republic of Conscience

49 of 53

'Coffin after coffin/seemed to float from the door.'

Casualty

50 of 53

'a blood-***** that you wish would test and clear you'

The Haw Lantern

51 of 53

'The base of all inks and pigments is seawater.'

From the Republic of Conscience

52 of 53

'white limbo floors'

The Milk Factory

53 of 53

Get Revising

Seamus Heaney 1966-1987

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