My father used to say,
“Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow’s grave
nor the glass flowers at Harvard.
Self reliant like the cat —
that takes its prey to privacy,
the mouse’s limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth —
they sometimes enjoy solitude,
and can be robbed of speech
by speech which has delighted them.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint.”
Nor was he insincere in saying, “Make my house your inn.”
Inns are not residences.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. by Walt Whitman
- To Imagination by Nithin Purple
- Николай Языков – Стансы (В час, как деву молодую)
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- “When the reaper lays the sickle by ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Poems On Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Георгий Иванов – Альбомный сонет
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Комета
- Как жаль, что много лет назад
- Umbrella by Mike Yuan
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Рубцов – Воробей
- Starlight
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Новогоднее видение
- On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper
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).