It bothers me to have to burden anyone with all the grief G… - Seamus Heaney

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It bothers me to have to burden anyone
with all the grief Grendel has caused
and the havoc he has wreaked upon us in Heorot,
our humiliations

Seamus Heaney

Beowulf · February 17, 2001 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Let whoever can win glory before death.

In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.

Then I thought of the tribe whose dances never fail / For they keep dancing till they sight the deer.

It bothers me to have to burden anyone with all the grief Grendel has caused and the havoc he has wreaked upon us in Heorot, our humiliations - Seamus Heaney

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