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
- Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Planetarium
- A Te Deum poem – Alfred Austin
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты “окон”, переработанные для сборника “Грозный смех”
- Song Of A Dream by Sarojini Naidu
- Омар Хайям – Благородные люди, друг друга любя
- Poetic Abbreviations, Poetry Abbreviations
- The Golden Boat by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – Чистый дух, заключенный в нечистый сосуд
- He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace by William Butler Yeats
- Feelings Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
- A Christmas Ghost Story by Thomas Hardy
- On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – У Наполеона Ватерлоо есть хотя б
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.