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
- From Far Dakota’s Cañons. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Степанов – Мишка (Буква М)
- Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- Омар Хайям – Чье сердце не горит любовью страстной к милой
- Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key by William Shakespeare
- Степан Щипачев – Любовью дорожить умейте
- Macer : A Character poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- On; On; Poet poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Юрий Галансков – Вступление к поэме “Апельсиновая шкура”
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- Anchor Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
- The Last Rhyme of True Thomas by Rudyard Kipling
- To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There by William Cowper
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.