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
- Гавриил Державин – На рождение царицы Гремиславы
- Владимир Высоцкий – И душа, и голова, кажись, болит
- Владимир Луговской – Спасибо
- Николай Гумилев – Людям будущего
- Robert Burns: Duncan Davison :
- Новелла Матвеева – Двое (Баллада)
- Rebirth by Rudyard Kipling
- Aix In Provence by Robert Browning
- Prairie States, The. by Walt Whitman
- The Best Friend by William Henry Davies
- Landowners by Sylvia Plath
- “From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise,” by Tobias Smollett
- My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- How to Become an Inspiration
- CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
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.