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
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищ! Поищи дома (Главполитпросвет №95)
- Robert Burns: Address To Edinburgh:
- The Winds Out of the West Land Blow poem – A. E. Housman
- Федор Сваровский – Насрулло и Курбон
- Николай Карамзин – Послание к Александру Алексеевичу Плещееву
- Олег Бундур – Чем пахнет мама
- Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind by William Wordsworth
- Everlasting Wander by Rixa White
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, крестьянин (РОСТА №463)
- Ballade Of Aucassin poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Возвращение
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still by William Shakespeare
- Олег Бундур – Дедушка воспитывает папу
- Otho The Great – Act III poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet V
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.