Lambs that learn to walk in snow
When their bleating clouds the air
Meet a vast unwelcome, know
Nothing but a sunless glare.
Newly stumbling to and fro
All they find, outside the fold,
Is a wretched width of cold.
As they wait beside the ewe,
Her fleeces wetly caked, there lies
Hidden round them, waiting too,
Earth’s immeasureable surprise.
They could not grasp it if they knew,
What so soon will wake and grow
Utterly unlike the snow.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Юлия Друнина – Альпинисту
- Underneath an Abject Willow by W H Auden
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- Cauls of Haw by Roland Bastien
- When I live with fancy’ by Nithin Purple
- Юлия Друнина – В семнадцать
- Humankind – How Limitless In Genius by Michael Levy
- In The Stilness O’ The Night by William Barnes
- A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning
- Song—Fragment—Leezie Lindsay by Robert Burns
- His Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
- The Ballad of the King’s Mercy by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Verses Written With A Pencil Over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth.:
- Song-Books of the War by Siegfried Sassoon
- Иван Барков – Венерино оружие
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.