Angle

 

translated from Romanian by Seamus Heaney

Overhead, the traditional lines
Of cranes:
Sonnets for countrymen.

Credit

Excerpted from The Translations of Seamus Heaney by Seamus Heaney and edited by Marco Sonzogni. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 2022 by The Estate of Seamus Heaney. Introduction and editorial material copyright © 2022. All rights reserved.

Translators
Seamus Heaney
1939 –
2013