How distant, the departure of young men
Down valleys, or watching
The green shore past the salt-white cordage
Rising and falling.
Cattlemen, or carpenters, or keen
Simply to get away
From married villages before morning,
Melodeons play
On tiny decks past fraying cliffs of water
Or late at night
Sweet under the differently-swung stars,
When the chance sight
Of a girl doing her laundry in the steerage
Ramifies endlessly.
This is being young,
Assumption of the startled century
Like new store clothes,
The huge decisions printed out by feet
Inventing where they tread,
The random windows conjuring a street.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Шекспир – Пример тебе подобной красоты – Сонет 84
- The Mysterious Cat by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Григорьев – Если где-то кому-то плачется
- Coming Through The Rye by Robert Burns
- Наум Коржавин – Люди пашут каждый раз опять
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не называй далекой бездной
- In The Dusky Path Of A Dream by Rabindranath Tagore
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Добрый совет
- On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper
- Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer by T. S. Eliot
- Константин Батюшков – На смерть И.П. Пнина
- A Bit O’ Fun by William Barnes
- Lyonesse
- Innocence
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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.