If grief could burn out
Like a sunken coal
The heart would rest quiet
The unrent soul
Be as still as a veil
But I have watched all night
The fire grow silent
The grey ash soft
And I stir the stubborn flint
The flames have left
And the bereft
Heart lies impotent
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet 01 poem – John Milton poems
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 22. The path by which we twain did go poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Summer by Luther Seahand
- Olney Hymn 24: Prayer For Children by William Cowper
- Владимир Британишский – Калмыцкое побережье Каспия
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Языков – В. А. Елагину (Светло блестит на глади неба ясной)
- Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- Казалось, осталось недолго
- Among The Sandhills
- Who does she think she is…. by Shel Silverstein
- Recovery poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Вера Павлова – Попытка не пытка
- Владимир Маяковский – Два не совсем обычных случая
- The Mouse by Mac McGovern
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.