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FURTHER READING
Poems by James Joyce
Ulysses [excerpt]
A Memory Of the Players In a Mirror at Midnight
Ecce Puer
I Hear an Army
Song
The Dead [excerpt]
Essays by James Joyce
Letter to Nora Barnacle [excerpt]
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Flood

 
by James Joyce

Gold-brown upon the sated flood
The rock-vine clusters lift and sway:
Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.

A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane,
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.

Uplift and sway, O golden vine,
Thy clustered fruits to love's full flood,
Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine
Incertitude.







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