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
- Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo by Robert Burns
- Николай Карамзин – Прости
- The Road by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: Thou Gloomy December :
- The First Part: Sonnet 13 – O sacred blush, impurpling cheeks’ pure skies by William Drummond
- Аля Кудряшева – Ночное
- EXISTENTIAL DILEMMMA by Satish Verma
- The Chipmunk by R. L. Karlowsky
- Низами Гянджеви – Встань, виночерпий, не ленись
- Man In Black by Sylvia Plath
- Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
- Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns
- At Midnight by Sara Teasdale
- Юлия Друнина – Здесь продают билеты на Парнас
- Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес
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.