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
- God’s Grandeur by Ted Hughes
- Валерий Брюсов – Из тихих бездн
- Владимир Маяковский – Notre-Dame
- Natural History by Sylvia Plath
- Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Fantasy by Sara Teasdale
- Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Заболоцкий – Воздушное путешествие
- Lover’s Gifts XL: A Message Came by Rabindranath Tagore
- Василий Жуковский – Государыне великой княгине на рождение
- How To Raise Money For Your High School Study Abroad Experience
- Owl by Sylvia Plath
- A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- An April Love poem – Alfred Austin
- Shakespeare by Vachel Lindsay
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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.