Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.
It’s hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it’s been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it’s a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 poem – Alexander Pope
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не для ангелов и рая
- The Spring passing away by Shailendra Chauhan
- Passer-By, These Are Words by Yves Bonnefoy
- Love Dale by Preeth Nambiar
- Владимир Корнилов – Маросейка
- The Snake Charmer by Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Burns: Raving Winds Around Her Blowing: I composed these verses on Miss Isabella M’Leod of Raza, alluding to her feelings on the death of her sister, and the still more melancholy death of her sister’s husband, the late Earl of Loudoun, who shot himself out of sheer heart-break at some mortifications he suffered, owing to the deranged state of his finances.-R.B., 1971.
- There is but there is not poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- The Childless Father by William Wordsworth
- A Little Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame by William Shakespeare
- Низами Гянджеви – Расступился черный мускус
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.