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
- The Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy
- The Holy Mountain of Hope by Thomas Ziemer
- Apostroph. by Walt Whitman
- Human Charms
- Epigram on a Suicide by Robert Burns
- With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh by William Wordsworth
- Half The People In The World by Yehuda Amichai
- Untitled XXIII by Yunus Emre
- A Soldier’s Reprieve by William Topaz McGonagall
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бегун морей дорогою безбрежной
- Trademark by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Владимир Маяковский – Шестой
- Ольга Седакова – Ангел Реймса
- The Peasant’s Return by William Barnes
- Approach Of Winter 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.