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
- Ольга Берггольц – Приятелям
- Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- The Bride
- On A Fowler, By Isidorus by William Cowper
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ночь
- Parting by William Butler Yeats
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- Sonnet 03: Canzone poem – John Milton poems
- As One Who Having Wandered All Night Long by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Маяковский – О патриархе Тихоне
- An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Still Heart by Rabindranath Tagore
- Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
- The Room by Mark Strand
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.