It’s all the same to the sun what it rises on —
On the windows in houses in Georgian squares;
On bees swarming to blitz suburban gardens;
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Tagged: aubade, Irish, Michael Longley, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, translation
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Taxed to explain what this resentment is
He feels for small proprieties, it comes,
He likes to think, from old enormities
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: defiance, Donald Davie, psychology, social commentary