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
- The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton
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- a gentle day by Raj Arumugam
- Merging, Emerging by Shahida Latif
- On Pedigree. From Epicharmus by William Cowper
- Epitaphs For Two Players by Vachel Lindsay
- Новелла Матвеева – Иней
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Love! by Praveen Parasar
- The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said by William Shakespeare
- Little Flute by Rabindranath Tagore
- Traveling
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
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.