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
- Fleeting Thoughts by Mac McGovern
- A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSETO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS by Robert Herrick
- Robert Burns: Address To The Woodlark:
- Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens
- The Old Manor House
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- By The Fire
- Robert Burns: Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson: A Gentleman who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from Almighty God.
- Низами Гянджеви – Расступился черный мускус
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Александра Цатуриана
- A Saturday Sunrise by Philo Ikonya
- Николай Языков – Давным-давно люблю я страстно
- The Last Redoubt poem – Alfred Austin
- False Friends-Like by William Barnes
- Николай Языков – В альбом Ш. К. Фон-дер-Борг (Доверчивый, простосердечной)
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.