Far Out (Philip Larkin Poem)
Beyond the dark cartoons Are darker spaces where Small cloudy nests of stars Seem to float on air. These have ...
Beyond the dark cartoons Are darker spaces where Small cloudy nests of stars Seem to float on air. These have ...
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all ...
1904(C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902) When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in ...
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly, Though the mind is meek. To be aware inwardly of brain and beauty ...
Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood; Here is the shadow moving ...
We never really slept, just buried clocks in the sanctuary of night every time I moved you moved with me, ...
I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis, And thank you very kindly for this visit-- Especially now when all ...
Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn, More coiled steel than living - a poised Dark deadly eye, ...
A challenge for the plowman thrown down in as in a duel the road now five feet wider To see ...
In the challenges of the year the dark places knowing now Your guiding hand Your protection in the rough spaces ...
Thoughts of the day running through my mind moving to get her to the school to be on time A ...
Over the dark black woodchips the wet spider webs three of them set apart spaces between the posts of the ...
In offering hospitality an open hand, a sign of welcome remembering too the needed empty spaces welcoming in the strangers ...
Snow continues to fall young faces pressed against the windows climb the back of the couch dream of snowmen, castles, ...
A certain smell distinct and acrid mold in the memories the boxes of our past saved too long in the ...
Freer than most birds an eagle flies up over San Francisco freer than most places soars high up floats and ...
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
The strident sounds of silence echo in a darkened room, a beggar's tomb of emptied space and barrenness, a shameful ...
It took several hours. There were spaces in the cookware of which no one was aware, save the poet. The ...
Britannia needs no Boulevards, No spaces wide and gay: Her march was through the crooked streets Along the narrow way. ...
A spirit sped Through spaces of night; And as he sped, he called, "God! God!" He went through valleys Of ...
This year, I'm raising the emotional ante, putting my face in the leaves to be stepped on, seeing myself among ...
The stars, a jolly company, I envied, straying late and lonely; And cried upon their revelry: "O white companionship! You ...
The white fog creeps from the cold sea over the city, Over the pale grey tumbled towers,- And settles among ...
There was a time when in late afternoon The four-o'clocks would fold up at day's close Pink-white in prayer, and ...
At first you'll joy to see the playful snow, Like white moths trembling on the tropic air, Or waters of ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
In Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, a woman sits at her desk to write me a letter. She holds ...
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