Thinking in terms of one
Is easily done—
One room, one bed, one chair,
One person there,
Makes perfect sense; one set
Of wishes can be met,
One coffin filled.
But counting up to two
Is harder to do;
For one must be denied
Before it’s tried.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – Война
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
- A Song : The Sparkling Eye by William Cowper
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сказка о живых мертвецах
- The Wicked Postman by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Mother Of A Poet by Sara Teasdale
- The Weepen Leady by William Barnes
- Palanquin Bearers by Sarojini Naidu
- 1991-I by Wendell Berry
- Виталий Бакалдин – Я не рос среди берез
- “Although no stupid scoffer, I” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Gardener LVII: I Plucked Your Flower by Rabindranath Tagore
- Eclogue:–Two Farms In Woone by William Barnes
- The Vision poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 8
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.