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Patrick Kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh

44 songs
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Poems: 1929-1938

25 tracks

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Album
Poems: 1929-1938

25 tracks

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Poems: 1939-1946

2 tracks

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Album
Poems: 1939-1946

2 tracks

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Top Songs

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The Great Hunger
#2
Ploug-horses
#3
Ploughman
#4
Poet
#5
Poplar Memory
#6
Pursuit of an Ideal
#7
Sanctity
#8
Shancoduff

About Patrick Kavanagh

Discography

Poems: 1929-1938
25 tracks
Poems: 1939-1946
2 tracks

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The Great Hunger

I Clay is the word and clay is the flesh Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move Along the side-fall of the hill - Maguir…

Ploug-horses

Their glossy flanks and manes outshone The flying splinters of the sun. The tranquil rhythm of that team Was as slow-flowing meadow stream. …

Ploughman

I turn the lea-green down Gaily now, And paint the meadow brown With my plough. I dream with silvery gull And brazen crow. A thing that is b…

Poet

Winter encloses me. I am fenced, The light, the laugh the dance Against. I am like a monk In a grey cell Copying out my soul's Queer miracle…

Poplar Memory

I walked under the autumned poplars that my father planted On a day in April when I was a child Running beside the heap of suckers From whic…

Pursuit of an Ideal

November is come and i wait for you still O nimble-footed nymph who slipped me when I sighted you among some silly men And charged you with …

Sanctity

To be a poet and not know the trade, To be a lover and repel all women; Twin ironies by which great saints are made, The agonizing pincer-ja…

Shancoduff

My black hills have never seen the sun rising, Eternally they look north towards Armagh. Lot's wife would not be salt if she had been Incuri…

Snail

I go from you, I recede, Not by steps violent, But as a snail backing From the lewd finger of humanity. I go from you as a snail Into my twi…

Pegasus

My soul was an old horse Offered for sale in twenty fairs. I offered him to the Church--the buyers Were little men who feared his unusual ai…

Discography at a glance

44

Songs on Lyrks

2

Albums

17

Singles

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