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
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- How To Achieve Self-Realization, The Mother of All Knowledge?
- Владимир Маяковский – В авто
- Ольга Берггольц – Трагедия всех трагедий
- Tom May’s Death poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton
- Number 3 on the Docket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- My Modern Surrealist Mind by Shaunna Harper
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- Sorrow’s Importunity poem – Alfred Austin
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Dree Woaks by William Barnes
- Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире
- The Singer poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Олег Бундур – И до моря 15 шагов
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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.