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
- Иван Киуру – Роща заалела
- Валерий Брюсов – Фламандцам
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Море и капля
- Федор Сологуб – Певице
- I will Take an Egg Out of the Robin’s Nest. by Walt Whitman
- Sound O’ Water by William Barnes
- My Friends by W. S. Merwin
- Survivor by Roger McGough
- November by Thomas Hood
- Persuasions to Joy, a Song by Thomas Carew
- Beggars by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride? by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet V
- Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
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.