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
- Владимир Бенедиктов – О, не играй веселых песен мне
- Winter by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Damon And Sylvia: Fragment
- Альфред Теннисон – Morte d’Arthur
- The Living Lost by William Cullen Bryant
- Once I Pass’d Through a Populous City. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пытки
- For Aun by Lynne Scott
- Юлия Друнина – Зной
- Владимир Маяковский – Голодные! Пан Украину грабит… (РОСТА №106)
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 71-го
- Владимир Британишский – Екатеринбургский модерн
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Утро
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.