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
- To a Certain Cantatrice. by Walt Whitman
- Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес
- Totem by Sylvia Plath
- Dawn
- Наум Коржавин – Перевал
- He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes by William Butler Yeats
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Drugs Made Pauline Vague by Stevie Smith
- The Wish
- Love In Reverse by Talha Jafri
- Mushrooms by Rina Ferrarelli
- The Ballad of the Red Earl by Rudyard Kipling
- The May-Tree by William Barnes
- Desire for You by Seema Gupta
- Низами Гянджеви – Семь красавиц
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.