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 Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats
- To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Elusive Lover by Renu Ayyar
- Praises to my motherland ! by Neelam Sinha
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
- Владимир Маяковский – Нас шахтер углем поздравит… (РОСТА)
- Create Wealth With Creative Thinking
- Death by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Robert Burns: Whistle O’er The Lave O’t:
- Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s by Robert Burns
- Pandering by Satish Verma
- Владимир Маяковский – Живой труп (РОСТА №182)
- Alone by Walter de la Mare
- Аля Кудряшева – Поперек
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.