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 Маяковский – Бруклинский мост
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Death In Exile by Satish Verma
- Sonnet to Italy by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Atmosphere by Robert Frost
- The Ivy by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine: On His Writing To The Poet, That A Girl In That Part Of The Country Was With A Child To Him.
- Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders
- Confession by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- You Felons on Trial in Courts. by Walt Whitman
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти О.Н. Чюминой
- Untitled XIX by Yunus Emre
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Teignmouth: “Some Doggerel,” Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Москва майская
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.