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
- At San Giovanni Del Lago poem – Alfred Austin
- When the Walls Were White by Noele Martin
- Legacy by Vinko Kalinić
- On The Decline Of Oracles by Sylvia Plath
- Ballade Of The Bookworm poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Planetarium
- Song Of Four Faries poem – John Keats poems
- Юлия Друнина – В семнадцать
- The Stars Are Mansions Built By Nature’s Hand by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Не избранностью, не особенностью
- Константин Бальмонт – Море – вечное стремленье, горы – царственный покой
- Шекспир – Считать часы и спрашивать – Сонет 58
- Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
- Doomes-Day: The Twelfth Houre by William Alexander
- Низами Гянджеви – Из месяца лишь день прошел
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.