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
- Heart of God by Vachel Lindsay
- The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling
- Flower-Gathering by Robert Frost
- Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns
- Ballades IV – Of Life poem – Andrew Lang poems
- София Парнок – Сегодня с неба день поспешней
- All Thats Not Love
- Autumnal Sonnet by William Allingham
- A Gemini’s Hurt by Stephen Allen
- Владимир Маяковский – Чемпионат всемирной классовой борьбы
- Enough by Sara Teasdale
- Did Shakespeare write his own plays and poems?
- My Rival by Rudyard Kipling
- Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Луговской – Радость
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.