How distant, the departure of young men
Down valleys, or watching
The green shore past the salt-white cordage
Rising and falling.
Cattlemen, or carpenters, or keen
Simply to get away
From married villages before morning,
Melodeons play
On tiny decks past fraying cliffs of water
Or late at night
Sweet under the differently-swung stars,
When the chance sight
Of a girl doing her laundry in the steerage
Ramifies endlessly.
This is being young,
Assumption of the startled century
Like new store clothes,
The huge decisions printed out by feet
Inventing where they tread,
The random windows conjuring a street.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- The Ancient Deception by Rixa White
- Then by Philip Levine
- On Catullus by Walter Savage Landor
- An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri by Thomas Chatterton
- Feeling Lucky to Be Irish
- The Buried Train by Robert Bly
- Николай Некрасов – Вчера, сегодня
- Hope, An Allegorical Sketch by William Lisle Bowles
- What We Leave Behind by Robert Saltzman
- Life
- Calais, August 15, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- Show me by Rixa White
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Anecdote Of Canna by Wallace Stevens
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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.