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
- Николай Карамзин – Послание к женщинам
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нараспашку, при любой погоде
- The Trap by Vachel Lindsay
- An Address to the New Tay Bridge by William Topaz McGonagall
- America by Tony Hoagland
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- Disingenuousness by Mark R Slaughter
- Father And Child by William Butler Yeats
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Aisne
- The Future Verdict
- Низами Гянджеви – Лишь с луной сравниться
- Ave Adonai poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Ad Quintilianum by Robert Louis Stevenson
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.