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
- Song from Aella by Thomas Chatterton
- When the Great Ark by Rudyard Kipling
- Adelgitha by Thomas Campbell
- No Labor-Saving Machine. by Walt Whitman
- Iva’s Pantoum by Marilyn Hacker
- Psalm 80 poem – John Milton poems
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- Round by Weldon Kees
- Robert Burns: Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White Locks:
- Николай Языков – Песня (Когда умру, смиренно совершите)
- O Wondrous Ecstatic Eyes – Chashmay Mastay poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- A winning lot
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- The Leädy’s Tower by William Barnes
- I shall not be a shame by Torm Gardson
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.