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
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- Change
- The Rose by William Browne
- Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough
- A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton by Robert Burns
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion by William Butler Yeats
- june_sick_room.html
- Down on the Shore by William Allingham
- The Labour by Mousumi Guha Roy
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- We’re Late by W H Auden
- An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq. by William Cowper
- Cino poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Федор Сологуб – Во внутреннем дворе отеля
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.