Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death
It dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,
White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen
- Liebestod
- English Poetry. Charles Lockhart. Epistle to a Friend, with a Copy of Burns’s Letters. Чарльз Локкарт. Послание другу при возвращении ему томиков стихов Бернса
- From ‘Arcades’ poem – John Milton poems
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Омар Хайям – Когда ветер у розы подол разорвет
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lines of John M’Murdo by Robert Burns
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- Mild is the Parting Year by Walter Savage Landor
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair:
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Robert Burns: The Posie :
- A Poet039s Privilege
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.