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
- The Gardener XXIX: Speak To Me My Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – Когда фиалки льют благоуханье
- An Answer To The Rebus, By The Author Of These Poems by Phillis Wheatley
- Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
- To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje
- The India Wharf by Sara Teasdale
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The King Of Sweden by William Wordsworth
- Let Me Tide Over by Vattacharja Chandan
- My Mother’s Body by Marge Piercy
- On Pilgrimage
- Told by Philip Levine
- A bat flits by Yosa Buson
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пекарня
- The Ploughman’s Life by Robert Burns
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.