Seamus Heaney

1939-2013 / Male / Irish
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Lovers on AranThe timeless waves, bright, sifting, broken glass, / Came dazzling around, into the rocks, / Came glinting, sifting from the Americas
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The OtterWhen you plunged / The light of Tuscany wavered / And swung through the pool
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Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bay / Counting bells knelling classes to a close. / At two o'clock our neighbors drove me home.
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Strange FruitHere is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd. / Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth. / They unswaddled the wet fern of her hair
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ExposureIt is December in Wicklow: / Alders dripping, birches / Inheriting the last light,
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Twice ShyHer scarf a la Bardot, / In suede flats for the walk, / She came with me one evening
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Blackberry-PickingLate August, given heavy rain and sun / For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. / At first, just one, a glossy purple clot
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The Harvest BowAs you plaited the harvest bow / You implicated the mellowed silence in you / In wheat that does not rust
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Death Of A NaturalistAll year the flax-dam festered in the heart / Of the townland; green and heavy headed / Flax had rotted there, weighted down by huge sods.
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DiggingBetween my finger and my thumb / The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. / Under my window, a clean rasping sound
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