Continuing to live — that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries —
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise —
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it’s chess.
And once you have walked the length of your mind, what
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
And what’s the profit? Only that, in time,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
On that green evening when our death begins,
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Долой волокиту! Да здравствует революционная инициатива! (РОСТА № 493 )
- Омар Хайям – Будь хмельным и влюбленным всегда
- Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ о Климе, купившем заем, и Прове, не подумавшем о счастье своем
- An Attempt At The Manner Of Waller by William Cowper
- The Wanderer
- The Ice Palace by William Cowper
- The House Where We Were Wed by Will McKendree Carleton
- Василий Жуковский – Адельстан
- Baile And Aillinn by William Butler Yeats
- St. Winefred’s Well poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Языков – Вот яблоки так яблоки, на славу
- He That Loves A Rosy Cheek by Thomas Carew
- As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow by Thomas Moore
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.