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PENAL LAW by AUSTIN CLARKE

First Line: BURN OVID WITH THE REST. LOVERS WILL FIND
Last Line: WHEN HANDS ARE JOINED AND HEAD BOWS IN THE DARK
Subject(s): CENSORSHIP; EROTIC LOVE;

Poem Sources:

LONG EMBRACE; TWENTIETH CENTURY IRISH LOVE POEMS.
  ORMSBY, FRANK (ED.)
  (1989)
 
THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF IRISH VERSE.
  KINSELLA, THOMAS (ED. & TR.)
  (1986)
 
IRISH POETRY AFTER YEATS; SEVEN POETS.
  HARMON, MAURICE (ED.)
  (1979)
 
THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS & LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. 6TH ED. BY JOHN PRESS.
  PALGRAVE, FRANCIS T. & PRESS, JOHN (EDS.)
  (1994)
 
MODERN IRISH POETRY; AN ANTHOLOGY
  CROTTY, PETER (ED.)
  (1995)
 
THE BLOODAXE BOOK OF 20TH CENTURY POETRY; FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
  LONGLEY, EDNA (ED.)
  (2000)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE.
  RICKS, CHRISTOPHER (ED.)
  (1999)
 
SELECTED POEMS. EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS KINSELLA.
  CLARKE, AUSTIN
  (1976)
 



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