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
- Robert Burns: Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair:
- Loud Silence by Preethi Saravanakumar
- Dawlish poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Concealment
- Philip Levine – Philip Levine
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Lover’s Gifts LXX: Take Back Your Coins by Rabindranath Tagore
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- An Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- There is but there is not poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky:
- Meadowsweet by William Allingham
- The Dying Prince
- Her Dream by William Butler Yeats
- A Sort Of A Song by William Carlos Williams
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.