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
- The Net Of Memory
- By the Dusk – Ao Entardecer by Soaroir de Campos
- Lady Clare poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Persuasions to Joy, a Song by Thomas Carew
- Road and Hills by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Stars
- The Woman in the Ordinary by Marge Piercy
- The Poet poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Robert Burns: O Thou Dread Power: Lying at a reverend friend’s house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept:-
- If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Witch Burning by Sylvia Plath
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 58. Farewell! – But Whenever You Welcome the Hour. Томас Мур.
- Release poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Берггольц – Из “Писем с дороги”
- Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor by William Cowper
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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.