Megalithic Poems

tiompan wrote:
Dunno if this has been noted previously .

From archaeology
One moral , at least , may be drawn.

By standing stones the blind can feel their way ,
And even madmen manage to convey
Unwelcome truths in lonely gibberish

W.H. Auden

"Archaeology , The useful "

Many thanks for that Mr t - it's a new one on me and duly added to the stack.

Our very own gjrk is probably too modest to mention it himself but there's a flippin' good poem of his now up on - http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/ Though Mr g's poem is inspired by the Knockawaddra alignment in County Cork it fits well with the pic of Stonehenge by Gideon Fidler that precedes it.

Just come across this in "Companion into Gloucestershire" - R.P. Beckinsale (1947 5th edition Methuen), it's a quote from a poem called "Gloucestershire Men" by F.W. Harvey (can't find the whole text):


"The men in yonder humped-up barrow
Crouched with their mortal joys and sorrow;
The Roman soldiers sound asleep
By walls where English weeds slow creep
(A thousand years are but a span ...)
Each dead man was a Gloucestershire Man!"