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
- To an Intra-mural Rat by Marianne Moore
- Robert Burns: On The Seas And Far Away:
- Robert Burns: The Braw Wooer:
- Living in my Bliss by Nina Gabriel
- Lovers by Siegfried Sassoon
- On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills by Yvor Winters
- On the Death of a Young Gentleman by Phillis Wheatley
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Михаил Ломоносов – Богиня, дщерь божеств, науки основавших
- Иван Дмитриев – Слепец, Собака его и Школьник
- Зинаида Александрова – У моря
- Robert Burns: A Dedication : To Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Ион (перевод)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам говорят без всякой лести
- Ode On The Spring by Thomas Gray
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.