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
- Mother’s Day, 1993 by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
- Excerpt – “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” by Roald Dahl
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
- Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet XXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
- Валерий Брюсов – Из песен Мальдуна
- A Lover poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам вчера прислали из рук вон плохую весть
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени. свидетель зиндийского удара
- Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- All These I Loved by Rabindranath Tagore
- Юлия Друнина – В школе
- Lament for the Makers by William Dunbar
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.