for Gertrud Widmayer, my landlady at Heidelberg
Why in pensive ticking, silent thoughts
You wile your time away
When all around huge swelling bells
Toll the days away!
Every hour that announced may go
Your silent hands take hold
And though the ages chimed in ears
Yours they never behold.
If all the clocks the world had known
Had struck one strong big note,
They would never still your plodding tone
Nor the working hearth you alert.
Do you wonder, wonder, little clock
What makes the grandfather tick!
Or his aching belly in the depth of sorrow
Cries to the world it’s sick!
Thirty million years and Pleistocene dark,
They are one split second short!
And whimpering suns that rise and flop
Have scarce stolen your tick or thought!
So, my little clock, my faithful clock
When I hear the tall town bell,
I’ll shrug my shoulders, one tiny moment
And know that all is well.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Finale. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Robert Burns: The Epitaph:
- Leaving Albania by Morelle Smith
- Signals by Walid Saba
- A Lover From Palestine by Mahmoud Darwish
- Николай Рубцов – Весна на берегу Бии
- Владимир Маяковский – За четыре года советской власти… (Главполитпросвет №248)
- The Connaught Rangers by Winifred Mary Letts
- on our conditioning by Raj Arumugam
- Robert Burns: Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie:
- Sonnet to Italy by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Our Fathers Also by Rudyard Kipling
- Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
- Вера Полозкова – Это не прихоть, это не блажь
- Monument by Satish Verma
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