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
- Валерий Брюсов – Гребцы триремы
- At Dawn poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Going for Water by Robert Frost
- Children Are Like Water by Robert Lloyd Jaffe
- Новелла Матвеева – Отражённым светом
- Wayside Flowers by William Allingham
- Elegy VII. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Glitches by Satish Verma
- Шекспир – С любовью связан жизненный мой путь – Сонет 92
- Oh You Are Coming by Sara Teasdale
- Михаил Лермонтов – Жена севера
- The Key Note poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benet
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- The Narrative by Talha Jafri
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.