To Dorothy
by Marvin Bell
You are not beautiful, exactly.
You are beautiful, inexactly.
You let a weed grow by the mulberry
And a mulberry grow by the house.
So close, in the personal quiet
Of a windy night, it brushes the wall
And sweeps away the day till we sleep.
A child said it, and it seemed true:
“Things that are lost are all equal.”
But it isn’t true. If I lost you,
The air wouldn’t move, nor the tree grow.
Someone would pull the weed, my flower.
The quiet wouldn’t be yours. If I lost you,
I’d have to ask the grass to let me sleep.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- October Journey by Margaret Walker
- A Song of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
- Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees
- Debt by Sara Teasdale
- Английская поэзия. Редьярд Киплинг. «Расходы и поступления». (1919-1926). 9. Джейн выходит замуж. Rudyard Kipling. «Debits and Credits». (1919-1926). 9. Jane’s Marriage
- Endless Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonet 54 by William Alexander
- Robert Burns: On Chloris Being Ill:
- To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America by Phillis Wheatley
- A Theory Of Prosody by Philip Levine
- An Honest Poet’s Life Is Full Of Care by Malcolm Massiah
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- In Imitation of Spenser : The Alley poem – Alexander Pope
- A New Year’s Gift, Sent To Sir Simeon Steward by Robert Herrick
- Олег Бундур – В гостях на великом
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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).
