Famous Set In Stone Poems by Famous Poets
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...There was a green branch hung with many a bell
When her own people ruled this tragic Eire;
And from its murmuring greenness, calm of Faery,
A Druid kindness, on all hearers fell.
It charmed away the merchant from his guile,
And turned the farmer's memory from his cattle,
And hushed in sleep the roaring ranks of battle:
And all grew friendly for a little w...Read more of this...
by
Yeats, William Butler
...ch I nag
However much I beg
It will not let me take
One single thing away:
Not my son's frightening eyes -
A suffering set in stone,
Or prison visiting hours
Or days that end in storms
Nor the sweet coolness of a hand
The anxious shade of lime trees
Nor the light distant sound
Of final comforting words.
[14 May 1940. Fontannyi Dom]
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CRUCIFIXION
Weep not for me, mother.
I am alive in my grave.
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A choir of angels glorified the greatest hour,
The heavens melted into flam...Read more of this...
by
Akhmatova, Anna
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