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 ...
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
Thirty-two years since, up against the sun, Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled ...
I The thick lids of Night closed upon me Alone at the Bill Of the Isle by the Race {1} ...
for a man whose eyes till now were a bed of rock whose hands were drier than deserts the sea's ...
In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced ...
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
The tempest calmed after bending the branches of the trees and leaning heavily upon the grain in the field. The ...
One heavy day I ran away from the grim face of society and the dizzying clamor of the city and ...
Thoughts of the day running through my mind moving to get her to the school to be on time A ...
A fruitful journey in the Lenten season into the center of our faith the life and love of Christ Walking ...
Approached by the master using his boat unlike the crowd upon the shore seeking Jesus out Humble before Jesus aware ...
In the story, the telling the coming of the Christ the coming of the Magi More too, moments of epiphany ...
Standing, walking, coming through the line greeting you, for a moment, sharing but a snapshot, a burst, of what I ...
He seemed so complacent in the hot August sun on the barrier islands not moving at all basking in the ...
Meticulous was the word That came to mom and me Simultaneously to describe Dad and how he approached almost Everything ...
Foggy morning On the Vineyard In Aquinnah Wet chair, hot coffee Sip in the heat Shake the daze Camera and ...
Seven descended on the table Away from the crowd He sat in the middle, Back to the wall Surveying the ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
Between Rita and my eyes There is a rifle And whoever knows Rita Kneels and plays To the divinity in ...
I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl -- I read that Foreign Lady -- The Dark -- ...
Delight -- becomes pictorial -- When viewed through Pain -- More fair -- because impossible Than any gain -- The ...
A House upon the Height -- That Wagon never reached -- No Dead, were ever carried down -- No Peddler's ...
It seldom snowed in Camp they said, on the mountains, yes, and in the Styx, aka zone six. That's where ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
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