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, ...
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, Let us (said He) pour on him ...
Our eyes are limpid drops of water. In each drop exists a tiny sign of our genius which has given ...
Shall I move the flowers again? Shall I put them further to the left into the light? Win that fix ...
A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, "Let ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
Part One As night fell and the light glittered in the great house, the servants stood at the massive door ...
We must remember the moment of their journey on the day of Easter, before the certainty of his rising a ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
It does not matter in what language one writes. All language is foreign, incomprehensible. Every word, as soon as pronounced, ...
The stone-built villages of England. A cathedral bottled in a pub window. Cows dispersed across fields. Monuments to kings. A ...
With lingering love she gazed at the dispersed Colors of dusk. It pleased her utterly To lose herself in the ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May, The city of Edinburgh was put into a ...
Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead. Who oft great armies to battle hath led; He ...
'Twas in the year of 1884, and on Saturday the 20th of September, Which the inhabitants of Dundee will long ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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