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
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вера Полозкова – Губы плавя в такой ухмылке
- Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry by Stephen Dunn
- Stanzas poem – John Keats poems
- AWAY FROM HOME by Satish Verma
- Colonel Martin by William Butler Yeats
- Heaven and You by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
- Song—Anna, thy Charms by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Спросили раз меня: “Вы любите ли НЭП?”
- To Morrow
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope
- Answer Me
- A Woman Waits for Me. by Walt Whitman
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.