The Old Fools (Philip Larkin Poem)
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
So I took her to the river believing she was a maiden, but she already had a husband. It was ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
She wore little teeth of pearls around her neck. They were grinning politely and evenly at me. Unsuitable they smirked. ...
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
Which was Held in the Queens Hotel, Perth, on the Evening of 5th September 1894 'Twas in the year of ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain, pray list to me, And I'll tell ye of a great victory. Where the British ...
Twas in the month of October, and in the year of 1899, Which the Boers will remember for a very ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
Ye sons of Great Britain, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Garnet Wolseley; Sound drums and ...
'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began, Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran; The Begum Kothie was ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
'Twas after the great Majuba fight: And the next morning, at daylight, Captain Macbean's men were ordered to headquarters camp, ...
'Twas on Friday the 2nd of March, in the year of 1894, That the Storm Fiend did loudly laugh and ...
All hail to the Empress of India, Great Britain's Queen-- Long may she live in health, happy and serene-- That ...
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
'Twas on the 8th of January 1881, That a terrific gale along the English Channel ran, And spread death and ...
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
Ye landsmen, all pray list to me, While I relate a terrible tale of the sea, Concerning the screw steamer ...
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