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
- A Week Later by Sharon Olds
- Missile – A Tanka Poem
- On Friendship by Phillis Wheatley
- Николай Заболоцкий – Оттепель
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о Пете, толстом ребенке, и о Симе, который тонкий
- The house where I was born (01) by Yves Bonnefoy
- einstein-defining-special-relativity.html
- Валерий Брюсов – Филлида
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair: Alteration of an Old Poem.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снег скрипел подо мной
- Нина Гаген-Торн – День мой в труде тяжелом
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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.