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
- The Nympholept
- Sonnet Xiv
- The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Любовь, любовь! веселым днем)
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- A Meeting by Wendell Berry
- Bagua by Rose Mry Boehm
- Sleep Spaces by Robert Desnos
- Robert Burns: How Long And Dreary Is The Night :
- Николай Гумилев – Капитаны
- All-Accomplished Rover by William Somervile
- Валерий Брюсов – К большой медведице
- There was a Child went Forth. by Walt Whitman
- Жан де Лафонтен – Павлин, жалующийся Юноне
- The Answer by Rudyard Kipling
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.