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
- A Crimson Carpet by Pamela Griffiths
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 91. Oh, Ye Dead!. Томас Мур.
- Как тяжело, когда идет война
- Владимир Динец – Над степью весенней
- The Old Cumberland Beggar by William Wordsworth
- Олег Сердобольский – Играли в шахматы слоны
- Иван Бунин – Безнадежность
- Nell Barnes by William Henry Davies
- Spilt Milk by William Butler Yeats
- Evening balcony by Vladimir Marku
- Николай Заболоцкий – В этой роще березовой
- Eclogue:–A Ghost by William Barnes
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Степанов – Мишка (Буква М)
- Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день
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.