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
- Couplet 11 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost
- The Brook That Ran By Gramfer’s by William Barnes
- The Kiss: A Dialogue by Robert Herrick
- My Heart’s In The Highlands by Robert Burns
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Желания
- A Sleepless Night by Philip Levine
- The Toucan by Shel Silverstein
- Better And Best by John Oxenham
- Human Charms
- To A Young Beauty by William Butler Yeats
- The Uses of the Eye by Paul Blackburn
- Apostroph. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Языков – Сомнение
- Николай Языков – Романс (Красой небесною прекрасна)
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.