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
- Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic
- Arrow through the bellybutton poem
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 54. Oh, yet we Trust that somehow Goo poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Great Time by William Henry Davies
- Ad Olum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Геракл (перевод)
- The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
- Superficially by Ndue Ukaj
- The Spring
- A Consolation to Cuckholds by William Wycherley poems
- A Man Young And Old: I. First Love by William Butler Yeats
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost
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.