Deceptions (Philip Larkin Poem)
"Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified ...
"Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified ...
SO the renowned Ithacensian Queen In Tears for her Telemachus was seen, When leaving Home, he did attempt the Ire ...
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly, Though the mind is meek. To be aware inwardly of brain and beauty ...
SHOW thee as I thought thee When I early sought thee, Omen-scouting, All undoubting Love alone had wrought thee-- Wrought ...
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced ...
A fine line in the sand of import to find balance of equities costs yes, expenses no parsing subtleties of ...
O Fair and stately maid, whose eye Was kindled in the upper sky At the same torch that lighted mine; ...
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion ...
I had some things that I called mine -- And God, that he called his, Till, recently a rival Claim ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Oh! did those eyes, instead of fire, With bright, but mild affection shine: Though they might kindle less desire, Love, ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
YOUNG JAMIE, pride of a' the plain, Sae gallant and sae gay a swain, Thro' a' our lasses he did ...
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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 ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
"Bring me soft song," said Aladdin. "This tailor-shop sings not at all. Chant me a word of the twilight, Of ...
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