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
- Eternal Love by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Song—Stay my Charmer by Robert Burns
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Карамзин – Илья Муромец
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ну вот – всё ладится, идет всё понемногу
- Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
- Олег Григорьев – Не свались в колодец, Ольга
- The Gladness of Nature by William Cullen Bryant
- Robert Burns: Highland Mary:
- After Sunset by William Allingham
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- The Storm
- Юнна Мориц – Букет котов
- Владимир Гиппиус – Иначе, как стихами, говорить
- And She is Spoke by Winifred Mary Letts
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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.