Beyond the dark cartoons
Are darker spaces where
Small cloudy nests of stars
Seem to float on air.
These have no proper names:
Men out alone at night
Never look up at them
For guidance or delight,
For such evasive dust
Can make so little clear:
Much less is known than not,
More far than near.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Broken Field by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 05
- Олег Бундур – Шляпа
- Sonnet # 21 by Luis A. Estable
- Resurgam
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- Old Susan by Walter de la Mare
- Robert Burns: Death and Doctor Hornbook : A True Story
- Mary, Pity Women! by Rudyard Kipling
- Another Weeping Woman by Wallace Stevens
- September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
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.