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
- Otho The Great – Act I poem – John Keats poems
- Impromtu On Ogareva poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A REQUEST TO THE GRACES by Robert Herrick
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
- Paradise Lost: Book 05 poem – John Milton poems
- The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- Zunsheen In The Winter by William Barnes
- Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Villanelle: Oscar Victorius by T. Wignesan
- Give Me Back My Rags #1 by Vasko Popa
- Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow by William Shakespeare
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XIV. Fly, Some Kind Haringer, To Grasmere-Dale by William Wordsworth
- The Letters poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- At His Grave
- Олег Бундур – Окошки
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.