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 Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Летний вечер
- Вергилий – Скопа
- Hero-Worship poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robin Hood And The Butcher poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Sandbox by Rachel McKibbens
- Robert Burns: Address To A Haggis:
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- The Swamp Fox by William Gilmore Simms
- Владимир Высоцкий – В тайгу
- Юлия Жадовская – Всё ты уносишь, нещадное время
- I Once Knew A Woman by Shel Silverstein
- The Modern Lyricist As Poet
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.