Philip Larkin Poems on Christianity (7 Poems)
Vers De Soci (Philip Larkin Poems)
My wife and I have asked a crowd of crapsTo come and waste their time and ours: perhapsYou’d care to join us? In a pig’s arse, friend.Day comes to an end.The gas fire breathes, the trees are darkly swayed.And so … Continue reading
Breadfruit (Philip Larkin Poem)
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are, As bribes to teach them how to execute Sixteen sexual positions on the sand; This makes them join (the boys) the tennis club, Jive at the Mecca, use deodorants, … Continue reading
Vers De Société (Philip Larkin Poem)
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You’d care to join us? In a pig’s arse, friend. Day comes to an end. The gas fire breathes, the trees … Continue reading
Story (Philip Larkin Poem)
Tired of a landscape known too well when young: The deliberate shallow hills, the boring birds Flying past rocks; tired of remembering The village children and their naughty words, He abandoned his small holding and went South, Recognised at once … Continue reading
The Building (Philip Larkin Poem)
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise and fall Like a great sigh out of the last century. The porters are scruffy; what keep drawing up At … Continue reading
Water (Philip Larkin Poem)
If I were called in To construct a religion I should make use of water. Going to church Would entail a fording To dry, different clothes; My liturgy would employ Images of sousing, A furious devout drench, And I should … Continue reading
Church Going (Philip Larkin Poem)
Once I am sure there’s nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut For Sunday, brownish now; some brass and stuff Up at the … Continue reading
More Philip Larkin Poetry (Based on Topics)
Time - Life - Light - Love - Faces - Night - Nature - Sense & Perception - Death & Dying - Mind - Youth - Past - Home - World - Silence - Money & Wealth - Christianity - Place - Man - Morning - View All Philip Larkin Poems