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
- Вера Павлова – Телефонные кнопки
- Как в поход я собираюсь
- A Farmhouse on the Wei River by Wang Wei
- Наум Коржавин – О Господи! Как я хочу умереть
- Protest poem by Susan King Saunders
- Hitler, a poem about Hitler
- Resignation poem – Alfred Austin
- Incendiary by Vernon Scannell
- October, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Плюшкин
- To a Certain Civilian. by Walt Whitman
- Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Вера Полозкова – Мало ли кто
- The Real Work by Wendell Berry
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
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.