Vers De Société (Philip Larkin Poem)
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
"Where have you been this while away, Johnnie, Johnnie?" 'Long with the rest on a picnic lay, Johnnie, my Johnnie, ...
When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the ...
Her brown falcon perches above the sink as steaming water forks over my hands. Below the wrists they shrivel and ...
I came home and found a lion in my room... A ...
In our journey on the earth we are given choices many forks along our path many opportunities God ever knocking ...
Like a giant game of blocks is the washing of dishes of a family of five even when only the ...
Snap of the willow whip chosen, just the right mix of thick branch, slender tip leave a few leaves at ...
There were two little skeezucks who lived in the isle Of Boo in a southern sea; They clambered and rollicked ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge; In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed ...
cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod stove-warmed flatiron slid under the covers, mornings a damascene- sealed bizarrerie of fernwork ...
William, my teacher, my friend ! dear William and dear Dorothea ! Smooth out the folds of my letter, and ...
The Banker's Fate They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
The Barrister's Dream They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
The Baker's Tale They roused him with muffins--they roused him with ice-- They roused him with mustard and cress-- They ...
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
I woke up, but I was travelling, The train had rolled throughout the night, It was now going toward huge ...
Because the shad are swimming in our waters now, breaching the skin of the river with their tarnished silvery fins, ...
(Rock Lake, Canada) In this country there is neither measure nor balance To redress the dominance of rocks and woods, ...
We were supposed to do a job in Italy and, full of our feeling for ourselves (our sense of being ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
I. Sunrise. In my sleep I was fain of their fellowship, fain Of the live-oak, the marsh, and the main. ...
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