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
- Ecologue I by Virgil
- Gazebo
- Robert Burns: No Churchman Am I:
- Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang by Wang Wei
- Олег Чупров – На предназначенной орбите
- The Gyres by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Британишский – Кипренский. Портрет С.С. Уварова 1816 год
- Fake Identity by Roberto Cocina
- Владимир Маяковский – Заносы не дают железным дорогам жить… (РОСТА №838)
- Book Fourteenth [conclusion] by William Wordsworth
- Ritual by Tala Bar
- Sin and Prayer by Satish Verma
- The First Part: Sonnet 1 – In my first years, and prime yet not at height by William Drummond
- The Hip by William Somervile
- Falling Action by Ruth Madievsky
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.