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, ...
Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, ...
Tall, and stout, and solid-looking, Yet a wreck; None would think Death's finger's hooking Him from deck. Cause of half ...
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
The dog has cleaned his bowl and his reward is a biscuit, which I put in his mouth like a ...
First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an ...
Who cleaned up the Last Supper? These would be my people. Maybe hung over, wanting desperately a better job, standing ...
She gives him his eyes, she found them Among some rubble, among some beetles He gives her her skin He ...
God's plan, his promise perfectly fulfilled, the Son, the Messiah becoming the Lamb of God submitting to suffer drinking the ...
Loved ever cleansed completely washed by our Savior cleaned by his blood A new heart in Jesus infused with love ...
Washed by his tears, the sweat of his years walking the earth as a man covered with the dust of ...
In bowing in prayer asking for forgiveness of our sin reminders of your mercy for all that we had done ...
Christ, sitting in heaven beside the living God part of the trinity father, son, and spirit several and yet one ...
The world, all that I see in winter's grip, held tight the howling winds, the blowing snow all I see ...
Within our houses the world around shut down nature bringing forth its wrath we are hunkered down the snow piling ...
The curtain torn, the distance the chasm between heaven and earth bridged in the moment the moment he came up ...
The pinprick in the dome a star shedding heavens light down onto the suddenly changed world a darkness lifted in ...
The parable made flesh The words given meaning In the person of the repentant Saul The one who was found ...
Lord, We thank you for this day, for the joy of the morning, the love of this family, waking from ...
Young Lochinvar came in from the West, With fringe on his trousers and fur on his vest; The width of ...
There were three in the meadow by the brook Gathering up windrows, piling cocks of hay, With an eye always ...
My first job was when I was about 15. I had met a girl named Hope who became my best ...
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions When George's Grandmamma was told That George ...
My youth was nothing but a black storm Crossed now and then by brilliant suns. The thunder and the rain ...
I was fairly drunk when it began and I took out my bottle and used it along the way. I ...
at high noon at a small college near the beach sober the sweat running down my arms a spot of ...
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen floor scrubbed the walls vacuumed cleaned the ...
On Western plains, where shade is not, 'Neath summer skies of cloudless blue, Where all is dry and all is ...
It was just like everything else in life: Something outside myself drew me down, My own strength never failed me. ...
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