Poetry

[vonjon]

hi can anyone help me with the authour of the poem which contains the line
"it took away my words" thank you

[elliemay1]

Philip Larkin?

[goodgoalie]

Philip Larkin:

I put my mouth
Close to running water:
Flow north, flow south,
It will not matter,
It is not love you will find.
I told the wind:
It took away my words:
It is not love you will find,
Only the brightitongued birds,
Only a moon with no home.
It is not love you will find:
You have no limbs
Crying for stillness, you have no mind
Trembling with seraphim,
You have no death to come.

[vonjon]

thank you goodgoalie

[elliemay1]

I thought you just asked for the author