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
- Friday’s Child by W H Auden
- Miss Brown by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- The Rolling Mills by Michael McGovern
- The Reformers by Rudyard Kipling
- Lips and Eyes. by Thomas Carew
- Battle For Madness by Satish Verma
- Sobbing of The Bells, The. by Walt Whitman
- Brought From Beyond poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Times Are Tidy by Sylvia Plath
- Valentine In Form Of Ballade poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Preludes by T. S. Eliot
- Robert Burns: Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- Sonnet CVIII by William Shakespeare
- Что такое хорошо и что такое плохо – Владимир Маяковский (Стих): Читать стихотворение на Poetry Monster
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.