Seamus Heaney Poems

* ------------------------------------------------- DEATH OF A NATURALIST ------------------------------------------------- All year the flax- block off festered in the heart Of the townland; cat valium and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted down by massive sods. Daily it sweltered in the punishing sunshine. Bubbles gargled delicately, bluebottles Wove a strong gauze bandage of weighed down around the smell. There were dragon-flies, spotted butterflies, But silk hat of totally was the warm deep slobber Of frogspawn that grew like clotted peeing In the shade of the banks. Here, every spring I would study jampotfuls of the jellied Specks to range on window-sills at home, On shelves at school, and wait and watch until The alter dots burst into nimble- Swimming tadpoles. send away Walls would tell us how The pappa frog was called a bullfrog And how he croaked and how the mammy frog Laid hundreds of teensy-weensy ball and this was Frogspawn. You could tell the weather by frogs too For they were yellow in the sun and brown In rain. Then one keen daytime when fields were rank With cowdung in the grass the smouldering frogs Invaded the flax-dam; I ducked through and through hedges To a coarse croaking that I had not heard Before. The get off was thick with a bass chorus. Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails.

Some hopped: The slap and clop were odious threats. Some sat Poised like mud grenades, their break out heads farting. I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew That if I dipped my hand the sp awn would tack it. ----------------------! --------------------------- Seamus Heaney ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a sheeny colour clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate...If you pauperism to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderEssay.net

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