To a Beloved Child
by Patrick Pearse
Laughing mouth, what tortures me is
That thou shalt be weeping;
Lovely face, it is my pity
That thy brightness shall grow grey.
Noble head, thou art proud,
But thou shalt bow with sorrow;
And it is a pitiful thing I forbode for thee
Whenever I kiss thee.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- A Case Of Murder by Vernon Scannell
- Blown from the west by Yosa Buson
- No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Олег Бундур – Неправильный кот
- Far Within Us #6 by Vasko Popa
- What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Зинаида Александрова – Гибель Чапаева
- Telescopes In The Square by Graham Rowlands
- Morning Poem #1 by Wanda Phipps
- Round by Weldon Kees
- Юрий Левитанский – Не брести мне сушею
- Жан де Лафонтен – Две Козы
- Ярослав Смеляков – Шинель
- Владимир Костров – Не трогайте жанр
- Memory by William Wordsworth
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).