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
- Николай Заболоцкий – Офорт
- He is more than a hero by Sappho
- Николай Гербель – На смерть воробья
- The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day by William Shakespeare
- Sing of the Banner at Day-Break. by Walt Whitman
- I Travelled among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth
- Poet’s Corner poem – Alfred Austin
- Doomes-Day: The Sixth Houre by William Alexander
- A Story At Dusk
- The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan
- Olney Hymn 45: The Happy Change by William Cowper
- Minnie and Winnie poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Humble Heroine by William Topaz McGonagall
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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.