Poetry Of Departures (Philip Larkin Poem)
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound ...
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound ...
There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not, On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot. Where the ...
There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not, On the desolate flats where gaunt appletrees rot. Where the ...
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets ...
Looking back in my mind I can see The white sun like a tin plate Over the wooden turning of ...
I In days when men had joy of war, A God of Battles sped each mortal jar; The peoples pledged ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
We gain more, learn, grow, it seems, through the grist of adversity the churning stomach, the flushed cheeks, wet furrowed ...
Short cropped hair of black Full beard of stubble, four days old Gray joining the jagged black shards Menacing, reaching ...
I fell in love anew last night. In my driveway, You in your car. Moments after our passion Your face ...
Out alone in the winter rain, Intent on giving and taking pain. But never was I far out of sight ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Glassmakers, at century's end, compounded metallic lusters in reference to natural sheens (dragonfly and beetle wings, marbled light on kerosene) ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
To the tune of "Telling My Most Intimate Feelings" When night comes, I am so flushed with wine, I undo ...
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for ...
It's too nice a day to read a novel set in England. We're within inches of the perfect distance from ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
I think if you had loved me when I wanted; If I'd looked up one day, and seen your eyes, ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or some northerly harbor of Labrador, before he became a schoolteacher a great-uncle painted ...
I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling finger-tips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With ...
'Number four-the girl who died on the table- The girl with golden hair-' The purpling body lies on the polished ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, ...
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