Seamus Heaney Short Poems

Famous Short Seamus Heaney Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Seamus Heaney. A collection of the all-time best Seamus Heaney short poems

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Lovers on Aran  

 The timeless waves, bright, sifting, broken glass,
Came dazzling around, into the rocks,
Came glinting, sifting from the Americas

To posess Aran.
 Or did Aran rush
to throw wide arms of rock around a tide
That yielded with an ebb, with a soft crash?

Did sea define the land or land the sea?
Each drew new meaning from the waves' collision.

Sea broke on land to full identity.

Song  

 A rowan like a lipsticked girl.

Between the by-road and the main road
Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance
Stand off among the rushes.


There are the mud-flowers of dialect
And the immortelles of perfect pitch
And that moment when the bird sings very close
To the music of what happens.

Anahorish  

 My "place of clear water,"
the first hill in the world
where springs washed into
the shiny grass

and darkened cobbles
in the bed of the lane.

Anahorish, soft gradient
of consonant, vowel-meadow,

after-image of lamps
swung through the yards
on winter evenings.

With pails and barrows

those mound-dwellers
go waist-deep in mist
to break the light ice
at wells and dunghills.

Rite of Spring  

 So winter closed its fist
And got it stuck in the pump.

The plunger froze up a lump

In its throat, ice founding itself
Upon iron.
 The handle
Paralysed at an angle.


Then the twisting of wheat straw
into ropes, lapping them tight
Round stem and snout, then a light

That sent the pump up in a flame
It cooled, we lifted her latch,
Her entrance was wet, and she came.