Elegy For Jane (My Student, thrown by a horse) – Theodore Roethke
Text taken from here. Elegy for Jane (My student, thrown by a horse) I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils; And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;…
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Elegy of Fortinbras, Zbigniew Herbert
Years ago, I read Zbigniew Herbert’s wonderful “Elegy of Fortinbras.” I studied “Hamlet” for the Leaving Cert. Brendan McWilliams somewhere wrote that he had a pet theory that the Shakespearean…
Séamus Sweeney 