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Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland was born in Dublin on September 24, 1944. Her father, Frederick Boland, was a diplomat who served as the Irish ambassador to Great Britain and the U.S.; her mother, Frances Kelly Boland, was an

From the Painting “Back from Market” by Chardin

by Eavan Boland (1944–2020)

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Dressed in the colours of a country day —

Grey-blue, blue-grey, the white of seagulls' bodies —

Chardin's peasant woman

Is to be found at all times in her short delay

Of dreams, her eyes mixed

Between love and market, empty flagons of wine

At her feet, bread under her arm. He has fixed

Her limbs in colour and her heart in line.

In her right hand the hindlegs of a hare

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