tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post4922874251779614704..comments2023-11-03T08:40:03.424+00:00Comments on Jude Collins: Remembering 1916Jude Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02255073034338282041noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-51291861043978323672013-05-20T13:33:38.035+01:002013-05-20T13:33:38.035+01:00Politics bewildered him, surely. And he was a bett...Politics bewildered him, surely. And he was a better poet than a politician. There's more after that to come, McDonagh and McBride and Connolly and Pearse... But I think excess of love is still to this day pretty penetrating... Mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09172035156183790535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-80209575223735066212013-05-18T22:15:53.310+01:002013-05-18T22:15:53.310+01:00Glad you quoted the rest of the poem, Mick. Althou...Glad you quoted the rest of the poem, Mick. Although I think Yeats was the bewildered one.Jude Collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02255073034338282041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-1329144245401545942013-05-18T20:22:30.846+01:002013-05-18T20:22:30.846+01:00Dear Sir Iam from DERRY not londonderry
Dear Sir Iam from DERRY not londonderry <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-69696853903212595632013-05-18T00:51:05.672+01:002013-05-18T00:51:05.672+01:00If 2016 is not an opportunity to reappraise and re...If 2016 is not an opportunity to reappraise and reframe, it will have been a wasted opportunity...<br /><br />Hearts with one purpose alone<br />Through summer and winter seem<br />Enchanted to a stone<br />To trouble the living stream.<br />The horse that comes from the road.<br />The rider, the birds that range<br />From cloud to tumbling cloud,<br />Minute by minute they change;<br />A shadow of cloud on the stream<br />Changes minute by minute;<br />A horse-hoof slides on the brim,<br />And a horse plashes within it;<br />The long-legged moor-hens dive,<br />And hens to moor-cocks call;<br />Minute by minute they live:<br />The stone's in the midst of all.<br /><br />Too long a sacrifice<br />Can make a stone of the heart.<br />O when may it suffice?<br />That is Heaven's part, our part<br />To murmur name upon name,<br />As a mother names her child<br />When sleep at last has come<br />On limbs that had run wild.<br />What is it but nightfall?<br />No, no, not night but death;<br />Was it needless death after all?<br />For England may keep faith<br />For all that is done and said.<br />We know their dream; enough<br />To know they dreamed and are dead;<br />And what if excess of love<br />Bewildered them till they died?Mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09172035156183790535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965333981619997978.post-88353331775527589812013-05-17T18:36:54.962+01:002013-05-17T18:36:54.962+01:00"The focus should be on the men and women----..."The focus should be on the men and women-----------not on political parties". Perhaps you could communicate that to Sinn Fein!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com