If Only – The Poetry Monster

by Alan Noakes

Yes the ‘if onlys’ seem to persist for ever

As hovering wraithlike used-up dreams.

‘if only ‘ this or that

On such and such a day

Had varied by an hour or an inch

Or something neglected had been done

Or that something done had been neglected

Then ‘perhaps’ the other might have been:

But then

‘perhaps’ and ‘if only’ are first cousins

Addicted to survival only in our minds.

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Poems in English

Youth and Love poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
Twilight poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
Translated from Geibel poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
To Vernon Lee poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
To E. poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
To Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
To Clementina Black poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Village Garden poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Two Terrors poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Sick Man and the Nightingale poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Sequel to a Reminiscence poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Promise of Sleep poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Piano-Organ poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Old Poet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Old House poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Lost Friend poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Last Judgment poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The First Extra poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The End of the Day poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
The Dream poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy

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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

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