Beyond the dark cartoons
Are darker spaces where
Small cloudy nests of stars
Seem to float on air.
These have no proper names:
Men out alone at night
Never look up at them
For guidance or delight,
For such evasive dust
Can make so little clear:
Much less is known than not,
More far than near.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Verses
- St. Agnes’ Eve poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- colors_and_sounds.html
- God Scatters Beauty by Walter Savage Landor
- Robert Burns: Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge:
- To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- A Lyric to Mirth by Robert Herrick
- Translated from Geibel poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Нина Воронель – Одержимые
- Юрий Галансков стихи: читать все стихотворения, поэмы поэта Юрий Галансков – Поэзия на Poetry Monster
- Иван Киуру – Медовый аптекарь
- The Enemies Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- SOFT MUSIC by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий корреспондент
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.