"We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent"
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Title
"We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent"
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. 4
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_0263
Coverage
54.6083, -7.8714
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Text
“We pray to ourself. The metal moon, unspent
Virgin eternity sleeping in the mind,
Excites the form of prayer without content;
Whitehorn lightens, delicate and blind,
The negro mountain, and so, knelt on her sod,
This woman beside me murmuring My God! My God!”
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Poems