"It was said stone dreams and animal sleeps and man
is awake"

Dublin Core

Title

"It was said stone dreams and animal sleeps and man
is awake"

Subject

Poetry--Twentieth Century--Dennis Devlin--Lough Derg

Description

The poetry of Dennis Devlin

Creator

Dennis Devlin, 1908-1959

Source

Lough Derg', in Devlin, Dennis, Lough Derg and Other Poems, pp. 1-4, here p. 2

Publisher

Cornwall Press Inc, Cornwall, NY

Date

1946

Rights

Citation for the purposes of criticism

Format

Published poem

Language

English

Type

Collection of poems

Identifier

DD_0260

Coverage

54.6083, -7.8714

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Text

“It was said stone dreams and animal sleeps and man
Is awake; but sleep with its drama on us bred
Animal inarticulate, only somnambulist can
Conscience like Cawdor give the blood its head
For the dim moors to reign through druids again.
O first geometer! tangent-feelered brain”

Original Format

Poems

Citation

Dennis Devlin, 1908-1959, “"It was said stone dreams and animal sleeps and man
is awake",” Digital Derg: A Deep Map, accessed April 24, 2024, https://digitalderg.eu/items/show/279.

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