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
- I Know From my Bed by Michael Lee Johnson
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, онанисты, кричите «Ура!»
- Ольга Берггольц – Новогодний тост
- Book First [Introduction-Childhood and School Time] by William Wordsworth
- Джон Мильтон – Новым гонителям свободы
- The Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay
- Love and Folly by William Cullen Bryant
- Вера Павлова – Жизнь в посудной лавке
- 1914 I: Peace by Rupert Brooke
- On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico by Robert Burns
- Владимир Британишский – По Иртышу
- Lover’s Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Mortal One by Sharon Olds
- To a Lady and Her Children by Phillis Wheatley
- Amoraphobia by Shaunna Harper
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.