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
- Hymn To Woden by William Lisle Bowles
- A Bronze Head by William Butler Yeats
- Song Of Unquiet Spirit by Satish Verma
- You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- From The Dark Chambers Of Dejection Freed by William Wordsworth
- Dream Girl by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Return by Sara Teasdale
- Before by Yehuda Amichai
- In an Effort to Translate Solitude poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
- Cantico del Sole poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Winter Ride poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не для ангелов и рая
- Sobbing of The Bells, The. by Walt Whitman
- The Old Age Of Queen Maeve by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Для чего оттягивают паны мириться?.. (РОСТА №264)
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.