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
- Leaving Albania by Morelle Smith
- In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- Юнна Мориц – Веселый завтрак
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Молись в ночи без плача о заре
- Ольга Седакова – Элегия смоковницы
- The Given Heart
- A Ballad Of The Two Knights by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Распутие
- Naighbour Pla Meätes by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Epistle To The Rev. John M’math: Inclosing A Copy Of “Holy Willie’s Prayer,” Which He Had Requested
- A Postcard From The Volcano by Wallace Stevens
- The Everlasting Voices by William Butler Yeats
- Игорь Северянин – Симфония
- Request
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.