The Explosion (Philip Larkin Poem)
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead. In the sun the slagheap slept. Down the lane ...
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead. In the sun the slagheap slept. Down the lane ...
Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe, Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, With all the ...
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark; White is their colour, and behold my head. But must they have ...
when the doctor came on a monday he looked at my mother and said there's something seriously wrong here - ...
This country nurtured hope decayed, The politician cruises on a 4WD guzzler, The thief. Feeling the base of his belly. ...
NEAR Clapham village, where fields began, Saint Edward met a beggar man. It was Christmas morning, the church bells tolled, ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in ...
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
This is a Blossom of the Brain -- A small -- italic Seed Lodged by Design or Happening The Spirit ...
They shut me up in Prose -- As when a little Girl They put me in the Closet -- Because ...
No Passenger was known to flee -- That lodged a night in memory -- That wily -- subterranean Inn Contrives ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows Into the angry main, ...
Long-vacant eyes now lodged in clear glass, a-swim with pale arms as delicate as angels' ... you are beyond all ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
1 It once might have been, once only: 2 We lodged in a street together, 3 You, a sparrow on ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
It is March and black dust falls out of the books Soon I will be gone The tall spirit who ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
"No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles." No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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