The Building (Philip Larkin Poem)
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains; Ho! get ...
'But that was nothing to what things came out From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.' 'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet--ah, yet, how swift and tender My thoughts go back in time's ...
The gingham dog and the calico cat Side by side on the table sat; 'T was half-past twelve, and (what ...
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name ...
'T is when the lark goes soaring And the bee is at the bud, When lightly dancing zephyrs Sing over ...
Brown lived at such a lofty farm That everyone for miles could see His lantern when he did his chores ...
TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
"WHAT'S this?" I pondered. "Have I slept? Or can I have been drinking?" But soon a gentler feeling crept Upon ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
Man Naturally loves delay, And to procrastinate; Business put off from day to day Is always done to late. Let ...
FIRST Be it a girl, or one of the boys, It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois, It is red, ...
Twas in the year of 1842 and on the 27th of May That six Companies of the 91st Regiment with ...
'Twas in the month of March and in the year of 1899, Which will be remembered for a very long ...
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day, That an alarming accident occurred in the River ...
Twas in the month of October, and in the year of 1899, Which the Boers will remember for a very ...
'Twas in the year of 1854, and on the 5th November, Which Britain will no doubt long remember, When the ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
Alas! noble Prince Leopold, he is dead! Who often has his lustre shed: Especially by singing for the benefit of ...
'Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of January That the late Rev. Dr. Wilson's soul fled ...
Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a ...
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