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
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 26. Erin, Oh Erin. Томас Мур.
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Untitled XIV by Yunus Emre
- Teaken In Apples by William Barnes
- The Best Friend by William Henry Davies
- Юрий Левитанский – Что я знаю про стороны света
- Mountain Wellhead
- Владимир Корнилов – Рифма
- Ouija by Sylvia Plath
- little teddy bear lost by Raj Arumugam
- When the Great Ark by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Гумилев – Заводи
- Николай Заболоцкий – Голубиная книга
- Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford
- Penmaen Pool poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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.