Best Society (Philip Larkin Poem)
When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, ...
When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, ...
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's THEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and ...
They had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi' ...
(at a Cathedral Service) THAT from this bright believing band An outcast I should be, That faiths by which my ...
as the landscape falls away the hawthorn in its gnarly fashion is content to stand alone berries (the very tint ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
A CERTAIN husband who, from jealous fear, With one eye slept while t'other watched his dear, Deprived his wife of ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
Deprived of other Banquet, I entertained Myself -- At first -- a scant nutrition -- An insufficient Loaf -- But ...
So give me back to Death -- The Death I never feared Except that it deprived of thee -- And ...
Ah blame me not, Catcott, if from the right way My notions and actions run far. How can my ideas ...
SO shuts the marigold her leaves At the departure of the sun; So from the honeysuckle sheaves The bee goes ...
Deprived of his enemy, shrugged to a standstill horrible Henry, foaming. Fan their way toward him who will in the ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
ONE Queen Artemisia, as old stories tell, When deprived of her husband she loved so well, In respect for the ...
Not long ago, in a charming dream, I saw myself -- a king with crown's treasure; I was in love ...
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text) May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon, how I in harsh ...
An angel stood beside the bed Where lay the living and the dead. He gave the mother -- her who ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of Christmas day, That ten persons' lives were taken sway, ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
Pity the sorrows of the poor blind, For they can but little comfort find; As they walk along the street, ...
Fellow men! why should the lords try to despise And prohibit women from having the benefit of the parliamentary Franchise? ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
When I too long have looked upon your face, Wherein for me a brightness unobscured Save by the mists of ...
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