The Explosion (Philip Larkin Poem)
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead. In the sun the slagheap slept. Down the lane ...
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead. In the sun the slagheap slept. Down the lane ...
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the ...
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
They have little tractors in their blood and all day the tractors climb up and down inside their arms and ...
New York: You take a train that rips through versts. It feels as if the trains were running over your ...
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
A snowy morning-- by myself, chewing on dried salmon. (Matsuo Basho)
The Chief Defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of String. At last he swallowed some which tied Itself ...
Write it. Write. In ordinary ink on ordinary paper: they were given no food, they all died of hunger. "All. ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
Three widows of the Middle West We're grimly chewing gum; The Lido chef a quail had dressed With garlic and ...
The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; The Wanderlust ...
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
THE FINE cloth of your love might be a fabric of Egypt, Something Sinbad, the sailor, took away from robbers, ...
The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena By indulging native appetites played was now been ...
I WAS born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the red of its clover, the eyes of ...
Once more he sees his companions' faces Livid in the first faint light, Gray with cement dust, Nebulous in the ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
In Havana in 1948 I ate fried dog believing it was Peking duck. Later, in Tampa I bunked with an ...
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