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
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- Robert Burns: The Song Of Death: Scene-A Field of Battle. Time of the day-evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song.
- God Has Pity On Kindergarten Children by Yehuda Amichai
- To Victory by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Isle Of Portland poem – A. E. Housman
- Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
- Waking In Winter by Sylvia Plath
- Peace
- Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- The Neophyte poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Divided Passion
- Repression of War Experience by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Challenge: A Court Ballad poem – Alexander Pope
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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.