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
- On Catullus by Walter Savage Landor
- Михаил Кузмин – Звезда Афродиты
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Spot by Thomas Hardy
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Boot And Saddle by Robert Browning
- Claribel: A Melody poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Противостояние Марса
- Song—Sweet Afton by Robert Burns
- Beans Taste Fine by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Корнилов – Дождь обычный
- Jonathan: The First Booke by William Alexander
- The Yellow Violet by William Cullen Bryant
- Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away by William Shakespeare
- A Point Of Honour poem – Alfred Austin
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.