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 Melancholy of Birth
- Olney Hymn 22: Prayer For A Blessing In The Young by William Cowper
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Корнилов – Музыка для себя
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet To Chatterton poem – John Keats poems
- These Are The Clouds by William Butler Yeats
- Юлия Друнина – Ты должна
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Заболоцкий – Оттепель
- The Year’s Awakening by Thomas Hardy
- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- Омар Хайям – Думал я, что верны обещанья твои
- Огюст Барбье – Мельпомена
- Youth And The Pilgrim by Sara Teasdale
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.