Thinking in terms of one
Is easily done—
One room, one bed, one chair,
One person there,
Makes perfect sense; one set
Of wishes can be met,
One coffin filled.
But counting up to two
Is harder to do;
For one must be denied
Before it’s tried.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Summa poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Омар Хайям – Двести лет проживешь, или тысячу лет
- Immigranten by Ndue Ukaj
- The Thief
- Федор Сологуб – Я дорогой невинной и смелою
- Troopin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- The Silver Moon by Sappho
- Юлия Жадовская – Всё ты уносишь, нещадное время
- Aubade poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Gwain To Feäir by William Barnes
- Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck by William Shakespeare
- Forbidden Fruit by Michael Lally
- Константин Бальмонт – Цветок (Я цветок, и счастье аромата)
- Immigrants by Robert Frost
- Михаил Кузмин – Все дни у Бога хороши
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.