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
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Tell me not here, it needs not saying poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- In Between The Strophes
- Robert Burns: Castle Gordon:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
- Юнна Мориц – Вместо сноски
- Teacher
- The Journey by Rabindranath Tagore
- Vows
- Sonnet 03: Canzone poem – John Milton poems
- Melmillo by Walter de la Mare
- Since That Summer by Mike Yuan
- Олег Бундур – Яблоко
- Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul by William Cowper
- From The Frontier Of Writing by Seamus Heaney
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.