Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album (Philip Larkin Poems)
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on ...
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on ...
(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, ...
"'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?" "Now 'ow in the devil would I know?" "'E's taken my girl out walkin', An' ...
Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. -- Sears, Roebuck Catalogue O my coy darling, still You ...
My father's head has become a mystery to him. We finally have something in common. When he moves his head ...
(The 110th anniversary of the completion of the "Decline and Fall" at the same hour and place) A spirit seems ...
I Never a careworn wife but shows, If a joy suffuse her, Something beautiful to those Patient to peruse her, ...
A Load of brushes and baskets and cradles and chairs Labours along the street in the rain: With it a ...
The blue jay scuffling in the bushes follows Some hidden purpose, and the gush of birds That spurts across the ...
Thoughts of the day running through my mind moving to get her to the school to be on time A ...
Like gloved hands at the summer cotillion so were the petals of the sun touching her face, oh so delicately, ...
She surfaced before me ready for the flash the pose of the picture I took a creature of the deep ...
Foggy morning On the Vineyard In Aquinnah Wet chair, hot coffee Sip in the heat Shake the daze Camera and ...
You're there with that hair framing your smile Social saccharin Pixie sticks, or pez All about the affectation The pose, ...
Three flowers bloom each day Falsely fragile Queen Anne's Lace Clump of effervescent Daisies A singular Black-eyed Susan Wildflowers all ...
Now that they've got it settled whose I be, I'm going to tell them something they won't like: They've got ...
O quam te memorem virgo... STAND on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave ...
In the 5th century B.C. an Indian philosopher Gautama teaches "All is emptiness" and "There is no self." In the ...
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen I study my father's embarrassed young man's face. Sheepish grin, he holds in ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The sort of girl I like to see Smiles down from her great height at me. She stands in strong, ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
I AM as lovely as a dream in stone, And this my heart where each finds death in turn, Inspires ...
I imagine Nice and topless beaches, women smoking and reading novels in the sun. I pretend I am comfortable undressing ...
You see that porcelain ranged there in the window- Platters and soup-plates done with pale pink rosebuds, And tiny violets, ...
Eighty-one degrees a record high for the day which is not my birthday but will do until the eleventh of ...
If there were more than one of me I'd shave my head and grow my beard I'd be a Doctor ...
(A Poem Game.) The King of Yellow Butterflies, The King of Yellow Butterflies, The King of Yellow Butterflies, Now orders ...
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