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
- Concealment
- Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё с себя снимаю, слишком душно
- In the Old Age of the Soul poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Haughty Snail-King by Vachel Lindsay
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 39. Old warder of these buried bones poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Repentance poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- The Weepen Leady by William Barnes
- On Invalids (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Жан де Лафонтен – Совет Мышей
- Virtual Impressions by Renu Ayyar
- On The Death Of Swinburne by Sara Teasdale
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о ленинградской матери
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
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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.