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
- Goddess In The Wood, The by Rupert Brooke
- Among The Rice Fields
- Moment’s Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Salut au Monde. by Walt Whitman
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- Eclogue VIII by Virgil
- Lovers since Eternity by Preeth Nambiar
- The Gift of the Sea by Rudyard Kipling
- Heal Your Broken Heart With Heart Touching Poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заказал я два коктейля
- Как прекрасны все цветы
- Children’s Children by William Barnes
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ночь
- Sumter In Ruins by William Gilmore Simms
- Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
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.