Book: Last Poems

• The Apparitions

  BECAUSE there is safety in derision
  I talked about an apparition,

  24 lines
• The Black Tower

  SAY that the men of the old black tower,
  Though they but feed as the goatherd feeds,

  30 lines
• News For The Delphic Oracle

        I
  There all the golden codgers lay,

  43 lines, 2 comments
• A Bronze Head

  HERE at right of the entrance this bronze head,
  Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye,

  29 lines, 7 comments
• Three Marching Songs

  Remember all those renowned generations,
  They left their bodies to fatten the wolves,

  92 lines
• Cuchulain Comforted

  A MAN that had six mortal wounds, a man
  Violent and famous, strode among the dead;

  26 lines
• A Stick Of Incense

  Whence did all that fury come?
  From empty tomb or Virgin womb?

  4 lines
• High Talk

  PROCESSIONS that lack high stilts have nothing that
  catches the eye.

  23 lines, 2 comments
• Under Ben Bulben

  I
  SWEAR by what the sages spoke

  101 lines
• Hound Voice

  BECAUSE we love bare hills and stunted trees
  And were the last to choose the settled ground,

  21 lines
• Politics

  HOW can I, that girl standing there,
  My attention fix

  12 lines, 3 comments
• In Tara's Halls

  A MAN I praise that once in Tara's Hals
  Said to the woman on his knees, "Lie still.

  21 lines
• The Statues

  PYTHAGORAS planned it. Why did the people stare?
  His numbers, though they moved or see

  32 lines
• Long-Legged Fly

  That civilisation may not sink,
  Its great battle lost,

  31 lines, 3 comments
• Three Songs To The One Burden

  THE Roaring Tinker if you like,
  But Mannion is my name,

  83 lines
• A Nativity

  WHAT woman hugs her infant there?
  Another star has shot an ear.

  13 lines
• The Circus Animals' Desertion

  I
  I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,

  43 lines, 2 comments

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