Breadfruit (Philip Larkin Poem)
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are, As bribes to teach them how to execute Sixteen ...
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are, As bribes to teach them how to execute Sixteen ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
Me that 'ave been what I've been -- Me that 'ave gone where I've gone -- Me that 'ave seen ...
It was the pleasant season yet, When the stones at cottage doors Dry quickly, while the roads are wet, After ...
Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers Are lying in field and lane, With dandelions to tell the hours That ...
HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? If there has, take him out, without making a noise. ...
I In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, Wrought with pilaster, bay, and balustrade In tactful times when shrewd Eliza ...
WILLIAM Dewy, Tranter Reuben, Farmer Ledlow late at plough, Robert's kin, and John's, and Ned's, And the Squire, and Lady ...
THERE stands on yonder high mountain A castle built of yore, Where once lurked horse and horseman In rear of ...
Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
To view his stately Walks and Groves, A Man of Pow'r and Place Was hast'ning on; but as he roves, ...
Joe Ramshottom rented a bit of a farm From its owner, Squire Goslett his name; And the Gosletts came over ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
An apple arc'd toward Kleitos; whose great King wroth & of wine did study where his sword, sneaked away, might ...
HOW wisdom and Folly meet, mix, and unite, How Virtue and Vice blend their black and their white, How Genius, ...
'TWAS in the seventeen hunder year O' grace, and ninety-five, That year I was the wae'est man Of ony man ...
DIRE was the hate at old Harlaw, That Scot to Scot did carry; And dire the discord Langside saw For ...
NO churchman am I for to rail and to write, No statesman nor soldier to plot or to fight, No ...
HAIL, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd! In chase o' thee, what crowds hae swerv'd Frae common sense, or sunk enerv'd 'Mang ...
Said Cotton to Corn, t'other day, As they met and exchang'd salute-- (Squire Corn in his carriage so gay, Poor ...
I inherited forty acres from my Father And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters From dawn ...
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