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
- Огюст Барбье – Джульетта милая
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
- The Sailor by Rabindranath Tagore
- Яков Полонский – Чтобы песня моя разлилась как поток
- Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin
- Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare
- Head of a Smiling Young Woman in Three-Quarter View by Raj Arumugam
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова
- Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
- March Evening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Иван Мятлев – Приди, приди
- Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
- Character Of Charles Brown poem – John Keats poems
- Forgotten Language by Shel Silverstein
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.