Continuing to live — that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries —
Is nearly always losing, or going without.
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair, and enterprise —
Ah, if the game were poker, yes,
You might discard them, draw a full house!
But it’s chess.
And once you have walked the length of your mind, what
You command is clear as a lading-list.
Anything else must not, for you, be thought
To exist.
And what’s the profit? Only that, in time,
We half-identify the blind impress
All our behavings bear, may trace it home.
But to confess,
On that green evening when our death begins,
Just what it was, is hardly satisfying,
Since it applied only to one man once,
And that one dying.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Ballade Of The Southern Cross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Current by Raymond Carver
- From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Веселый ветер
- Charm, The by Rupert Brooke
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- The Journey by Rabindranath Tagore
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper o’er the buried sun poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Омар Хайям – И теперь живу под гнетом страха
- Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
- Poems from Makiwane poem – Amitabh Mitra poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Hwomestead A-Vell Into Hand by William Barnes
- Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
- The Example by William Henry Davies
- Roaming in Thought. by Walt Whitman
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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.