Like The Train’s Beat (Philip Larkin Poems)
Like the train's beat Swift language flutters the lips Of the Polish airgirl in the corner seat, The swinging and ...
Like the train's beat Swift language flutters the lips Of the Polish airgirl in the corner seat, The swinging and ...
The world is narrow and ways are short, and our lives are dull and slow, For little is new where ...
White handkerchiefs wave from the short black pier As we glide to the grand old sea -- But the song ...
Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore, Imperfect kindling even in this ...
Some things I do not profess to understand, perhaps not wanting to, including whatever it was they did with you ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
Puck of Poock's Hills Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee Our love and toil in the years to ...
Ahasuerus Jenkins of the "Operatic Own," Was dowered with a tenor voice of super-Santley tone. His views on equitation were, ...
To standing in storm to cry out in the wilderness to preach the love of Christ whether or not they ...
Trapped, led astray hostage to society living beyond our needs beholden to another master kept from our father our lives ...
Amid the controlled chaos the schoolyard, playground this morning ribbons of children, running, skipping, dancing over the blacktop, being children, ...
The sun began to shine the petals unfurled precise order, sequence regimented, controlled synchronized blooming set down in the genetic ...
Now this was a conversation, as I learned later, that was not in the right place a high school classroom, ...
You loosed the whirlwinds That day in April Without knowing it, Setting a settled soul Off his pilings Forced to ...
Controlled chaos Sharp angles Ripped colors Shapes alternating Sharp and subdued Tragedy And rage Pulled onto page Within a Continuous ...
No hothouse rose Is She No even color or clipped thorns No controlled bloom can She be She is a ...
You loosed the whirlwinds That day in June Setting two settled souls Off their pilings Forced to face our realities ...
Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
The Birds begun at Four o'clock -- Their period for Dawn -- A Music numerous as space -- But neighboring ...
In the Years of the Primal Course, in the dawn of terrestrial birth, Man mastered the ...
In the Years of the Primal Course, in the dawn of terrestrial birth, Man mastered the ...
I. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, Then two long ...
The roaring alongside he takes for granted, and that every so often the world is bound to shake. He runs, ...
"What kind of a person are you," I heard them say to me. I'm a person with a complex plumbing ...
Of all the docks upon the blue There was no dockyard, old or new, To touch the dock at Cockatoo. ...
"I'll introduce a friend!" he said, "And if you've got a vacant pen You'd better take him in the shed ...
The Premier and the Socialist Were walking through the State: They wept to see the Savings Bank Such funds accumulate. ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
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