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
- Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
- The King Of Sweden by William Wordsworth
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Омар Хайям – Чистый дух, заключенный в нечистый сосуд
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бивак
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church: Who was looking up the text during sermon.
- Psalm 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- Василий Жуковский – Ахилл
- A Civil War by Satish Verma
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand. by Walt Whitman
- Little angel by Vladimir Marku
- I think it rains by Wole Soyinka
- One Sweeps By. by Walt Whitman
Some external links:
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.