The Whitsun Weddings (Philip Larkin Poem)
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
LONG-EXPECTED one and twenty Ling'ring year at last has flown, Pomp and pleasure, pride and plenty Great Sir John, are ...
for Hank and Nancy Seven thousand acres of grass have faded yellow from his cough. These limp days, his anger, ...
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under ...
All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding and steerhide over the ash hames, to haul sledges of cordwood ...
Children, if you dare to think Of the greatness, rareness, muchness Fewness of this precious only Endless world in which ...
The green grass is growing, The morning wind is in it, 'Tis a tune worth the knowing, Though it change ...
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, ...
Knows he who tills this lonely field To reap its scanty corn, What mystic fruit his acres yield At midnight ...
Think me not unkind and rude, That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of ...
my mother pushed my sister out of the apartment door with an empty suitcase because she kept threatening to run ...
They lie in parallel rows, on ice, head to tail, each a foot of luminosity barred with black bands, which ...
Their Height in Heaven comforts not -- Their Glory -- nought to me -- 'Twas best imperfect -- as it ...
The Products of my Farm are these Sufficient for my Own And here and there a Benefit Unto a Neighbor's ...
It was a quiet way -- He asked if I was his -- I made no answer of the Tongue ...
A nearness to Tremendousness -- An Agony procures -- Affliction ranges Boundlessness -- Vicinity to Laws Contentment's quiet Suburb -- ...
Like Rain it sounded till it curved And then I new 'twas Wind -- It walked as wet as any ...
It sifts from Leaden Sieves -- It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
Omaha, Nebraska They do not sleep nights but stand between rows of glowing corn and cabbages grown on acres past ...
A Small Dream It was only a small dream of the Golden World, now you trot off to bed. I'll ...
AWA' wi' your witchcraft o' Beauty's alarms, The slender bit Beauty you grasp in your arms, O, gie me the ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead, Wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine? And would the ...
we have everything and we have nothing and some men do it in churches and some men do it by ...
These hills, to hurt me more, That am hurt already enough,- Having left the sea behind, Having turned suddenly and ...
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
I inherited forty acres from my Father And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters From dawn ...
Into the acres of the newborn state He poured his strength, ...
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