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
- Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Rough Roads:
- Music poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
- Dedication by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Betrayal by Priyanka Dutt
- Sonnet Ix
- The Snake
- Владимир Британишский – Лохматую белую собаку
- Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View by Raj Arumugam
- “Sadder than lark when lowering” poem – Alfred Austin
- Unrequited Pathological
- in praise of the moon by Raj Arumugam
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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.