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
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чесменские трофеи
- To a Childless Woman by Siegfried Sassoon
- Beside The Idle Summer Sea by William Ernest Henley
- The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
- Олег Бундур – Просьба
- Song Of The Peri
- For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Огюст Барбье – Джульетта милая
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- Ольга Седакова – Первая тетрадь
- Untitled #11 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- Dedication poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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.