If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal
The heart would rest quiet
The unrent soul
Be as still as a veil
But I have watched all night
The fire grow silent
The grey ash soft
And I stir the stubborn flint
The flames have left
And the bereft
Heart lies impotent
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Vision by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- On Fair Compassion by Nithin Purple
- Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan
- Николай Гумилев – Зачарованный викинг, я шел по земле
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race by Vachel Lindsay
- Coolness by Yosa Buson
- The Merman poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals. by Walt Whitman
- El Extraviado
- TRUNCATED by Satish Verma
- The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
- The Routine Things Around The House by Stephen Dunn
- To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste
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.