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
- Poets to Come. by Walt Whitman
- Lord when the wise men came from farr by Sidney Godolphin
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Even Because by Ralph Angel
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Survivor by Roger McGough
- let’s love the lawn by Raj Arumugam
- Happy Teacher’s Day by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
- The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein
- Олег Бундур – Школа живёт
- Sonnet CXXV by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Говорят, лезу прямо под нож
- Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
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.