Lambs that learn to walk in snow
When their bleating clouds the air
Meet a vast unwelcome, know
Nothing but a sunless glare.
Newly stumbling to and fro
All they find, outside the fold,
Is a wretched width of cold.
As they wait beside the ewe,
Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies
Hidden round them, waiting too,
Earth’s immeasureable surprise.
They could not grasp it if they knew,
What so soon will wake and grow
Utterly unlike the snow.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Language by W. S. Merwin
- Олег Бундур – Страх
- Orlando Furioso Canto 18 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Вера Павлова – Снежную бабочку-однодневку
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- African Artists’ Painting Inspiration
- Ballade Of Autumn poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Степан Щипачев – Не громок, не бросок мой стих
- O aye my wife she dang me (Song) by Robert Burns
- The Source by Rabindranath Tagore
- Primrose Rose by Rainbow Reed
- Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Яков Полонский – Диссонанс
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Ballad Third – John Bushby’s Lamentation.
- Eight O’Clock by Sara Teasdale
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.