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
- The Cross-Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Нина Воронель – Харьков
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Скажите
- Song poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Late, Late, So Late poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- What the Miner in the Desert Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old by William Wordsworth
- Rimmon by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Высоцкий – День рождения лейтенанта милиции в ресторане “Берлин”
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Ок Мельникова – Заповедь номер одиннадцать
- The Kiss — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Dialogue Of Self And Soul by William Butler Yeats
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
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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.