Example sentences for: seamus

How can you use “seamus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a "smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago," fanning "up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships."

  • Since Slate 's first issue, which included a poem by Seamus Heaney, we have published only poems solicited by our poetry editor, Robert Pinsky.

  • Book -- Reading in the Dark , by Seamus Deane;

  • And Penguin Audiobooks has brought out an edition of Pinsky's translation of Dante's Inferno, read by Pinsky himself, Louise Glück, and Seamus Heaney.

  • The paper also quoted the Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney welcoming the agreement with a quotation from the epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf": "A light appeared and the whole place became brightened the way the sky does when heaven's candle is shining brightly."


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