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
- Babul poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- 1777 poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Омар Хайям – Если все государства, вблизи и вдали
- Михаил Лермонтов – Челнок (Воет ветр и свистит пред недальной грозой)
- A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- The Battle Of Harlaw–Evergreen Version poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Postip by Manolo Arriola
- The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I poem – John Milton poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Лучший город
- Go Get The Goodly Squab by Sylvia Plath
- Song Of The Enfifa River
- My Love Is Good by William Barnes
- The Roses And The Mothers Cannot Choose by William Alexander
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope
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.