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
- To L. R. E. by Sara Teasdale
- Вера Павлова – Объятье
- Robert Burns: Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet:
- Among The Narcissi by Sylvia Plath
- Валерий Брюсов – Дождь
- In Absence. by Sidney Lanier
- Владимир Корнилов – Разговор
- The battle of fire by Tanisha Avarsekar
- No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest by Mary Gilmore
- The Rose of Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
- Eclipse Of Love
- Ярослав Смеляков – Шинель
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking. by Walt Whitman
- Medicine to my brain poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare
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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.