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
- Sonnet CVII by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Из допущенных в рай и повергнутых в ад
- Me, The Wind and the Old Shadow by Walter William Safar
- Fancy Dress by Siegfried Sassoon
- Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
- Валерий Брюсов – Е.Т. (Кто глаза ее оправил)
- Pathetic Way Of Getting Over Me by Shel Silverstein
- Address To Kilchurn Castle, Upon Loch Awe by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night, December 4th, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries.:
- The Passing Of Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
- To a foil’d European Revolutionaire. by Walt Whitman
- Lover’s Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled the Old Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Tinker Jack And The Tidy Wives by Sylvia Plath
- A Dialogue
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.