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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANACH, by DARRELL FIGGIS First Line: There is no peace now however things go Last Line: With an invisible spell. Alternate Author Name(s): Ireland, Michael | |||
There is no peace now however things go, No peace where the ways of men ring loud, Save in a secret place that I know Hidden as in a cloud. All the high hills stand clustering round, Arched to protect it from trouble and noise, The great strong hills that sing without sound, And speak with no voice. There lies Caorog, the mute low lake, And Bun-na-freamha lying aloft, Peacefully sleeping, or even if they wake Lapping low and soft. Upon the high hill-tops the heather may be crying, And over the hill-tops the voices of men are heard, But here only water lapping and sighing, Or the wail of a bird. Peace, peace and peace, from the inner heart of dream, More full of wisdom than speech can tell, Dropt like a veil round the show of things that seem With an invisible spell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A CERTAIN CRITIC by AMY LOWELL A PROBLEM IN AESTHETICS by KAREN SWENSON TO ROSAMONDE: A BALADE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER THE ROSY BOSOM'D HOURS by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE ON A YOUNG BRIDE DROWNED IN THE BOSPHORUS by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS THERE HE GOES by BERTON BRALEY CHALSE A KILLEY; TO CHALSE IN HEAVEN by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN ON AN INFANT UNBORN, AND THE MOTHER DYING IN TRAVAIL by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |
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