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
- A Manual, More Ancient Than The Art Of Printing, And Not To Be Found In Any Catalogue by William Cowper
- never.html
- A Hymn to Love by Robert Herrick
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 9. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Forfeiture
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Straw sandal half sunk by Yosa Buson
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ореланна
- Two Or Three: A Recipe To Make A Cuckold poem – Alexander Pope
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Степь
- Robert Burns: Dainty Davie:
- Statistic by Shivam Pandya
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел, Дикая Свинья и Кошка
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.