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
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 44. She Is Far From the Land. Томас Мур.
- Демьян Бедный – Весенний благостный покой
- The Garden of Janus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- Mourning poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Иван Козлов – Умирающая Эрменгарда
- One Day You Will Miss Me.. by Rahul S
- Омар Хайям – Будь камнем твердым я
- Zellen Woone’s Honey To Buy Zome’hat Sweet by William Barnes
- To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America by Phillis Wheatley
- Term by W. S. Merwin
- Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Николай Глазков – Поэзия! Ты не потерпишь фальши
- Алексей Жемчужников – Знакомая картина
- At The San Francisco Airport by Yvor Winters
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.