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
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- A Coat by William Butler Yeats
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- On The Morning Of Christs Nativity poem – John Milton poems
- The Bride-Cake by Robert Herrick
- Robert Burns: Highland Mary:
- Кондратий Рылеев – Мне тошно здесь, как на чужбине
- Book Third [Residence at Cambridge] by William Wordsworth
- Salutation by Rabindranath Tagore
- The man with the blue eye by Neelam Shah
- К той, что названа Кариной
- Legacy by Vinko Kalinić
- Inversnaid poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: The Trogger.: Heron Election Ballad, No. IV.
- Владимир Высоцкий – О знаках Зодиака
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.