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
- To The Autumn Wind poem – Alfred Austin
- Top 5 Furniture Buying Tactics For the Best Purchase
- On His Deceased Wife poem – John Milton poems
- Excelsior. by Walt Whitman
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В метро
- Gigolo by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Prologue: Spoken by Mr. Woods on his benefit-night, Monday, 16th April, 1787
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Троянки (перевод)
- A Hymn to Love by Robert Herrick
- Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: The Menagerie
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Британишский – Чернышев переулок и мост Чернышев
- Robert Burns: Wee Willie Gray:
- The Fall by William Barnes
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.