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
- Николай Рубцов – Жеребенок
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Thoughts by Ronald G. Auguste
- The Stranger poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Fare Well by Walter de la Mare
- Mark Twain and Joan of Arc by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Степанов – Яхта (Буква Я)
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- Rhymes for Gloriana by Vachel Lindsay
- In Memory of a Child by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Степанов – Енот (Буква Е)
- An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
- Владимир Маяковский – Пятый интернационал
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 58. Farewell! – But Whenever You Welcome the Hour. Томас Мур.
- At Dover by William Lisle Bowles
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.