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 Well Of Love by Walter William Safar
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- It Will Not Change by Sara Teasdale
- Кондратий Рылеев – Луна
- Илья Эренбург – Я слышу всё, и горестные шепоты
- Aesop poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Johnny Rich by Will McKendree Carleton
- The Sea-Wife by Rudyard Kipling
- Зинаида Александрова – Мне рукою машет маленький сынок
- Scotland by MB Moshe
- Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech’s Absence by Robert Burns
- A Stone Is Nobody’s by Russell Edson
- Whisper of the Star
- Федор Сологуб – Всё зеленее и светлее
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
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.