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
- To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- She’s Flawless by Mandy Williams
- Новелла Матвеева – Маяк
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- A Jewish Family In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine by William Wordsworth
- Searing Heat by Satish Verma
- A Party Of Lovers poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: Thanksgiving For A National Victory:
- The Lady And The Earthenware Head by Sylvia Plath
- The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Yellow Violet by William Cullen Bryant
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- An Immorality poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Delicate Cluster. by Walt Whitman
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.