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
- The Emigrant
- Степан Щипачев – Опять тревожно, больно сердцу стало
- Шекспир – Я так тебя люблю – Сонет 36
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Песня пахаря
- Berket And The Stars by William Carlos Williams
- On a Fan of the Author’s Design poem – Alexander Pope
- Огюст Барбье – Дант
- Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma
- Владимир Костров – 1380 год
- Life a chess game by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Владимир Корнилов – Старость
- Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Вовка дразнит Свету
- The Gardener XXVII: Trust Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome 2 (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
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.