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
- By Callimachus by William Cowper
- Facing West from California’s Shores. by Walt Whitman
- Intimidation by Satish Verma
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours. by Walt Whitman
- The Gardener XXXIV: Do Not Go, My Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Охота на кабанов
- A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Epigram to Miss Jean Scott by Robert Burns
- Disillusionment Of Ten O’clock by Wallace Stevens
- Clover by Sidney Lanier
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley
- On Journeys Through The States. by Walt Whitman
- Oh could my Mind
- Skyscrapers by Rifat Ilgaz
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.