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
- Юлия Друнина – Забытая тетрадь, Истертые листы
- Time To Transplant by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Physically Hearted
- Виктор Гончаров – Дождь
- The Lesson by Roger McGough
- Epithalamion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Вероника Тушнова – Костер
- As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
- Death & Co. by Sylvia Plath
- The Ballad of the Red Earl by Rudyard Kipling
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “When I Have Borne In Memory” by William Wordsworth
- Liberty, and Love; or, the Two Sparrows by William Somervile
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Николай Языков – Песня (Когда умру, смиренно совершите)
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.