Lines On A Young Lady’s Photograph Album (Philip Larkin Poems)
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on ...
At last you yielded up the album, which Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages Matt and glossy on ...
Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn, More coiled steel than living - a poised Dark deadly eye, ...
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
When love has changed to kindliness -- Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press So tight that Time's an old ...
In the grey tumult of these after years Oft silence falls; the incessant wranglers part; And less-than-echoes of remembered tears ...
When love has changed to kindliness -- Oh, love, our hungry lips, that press So tight that Time's an old ...
Though the air is full of singing my head is loud with the labor of words. Though the season is ...
Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it. Yes I am torching ber curves and paps ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment League Arrive in the afternoon, the late light slanting In diluted gold bars ...
His frown brought terror to his foes, But now in twilight of his days The pure perfection of a rose ...
My first I wed when just sixteen And he was sixty-five. He treated me like any queen The years he ...
RED drips from my chin where I have been eating. Not all the blood, nowhere near all, is wiped off ...
Water in the millrace, through a sluice of stone, plunges headlong into that black pond where, absurd and out-of-season, a ...
TARRY a while, O Death, I cannot die While yet my sweet life burgeons with its spring; Fair is my ...
In noon-tide hours, O Love, secure and strong, I need thee not; mad dreams are mine to bind The world ...
What links are ours with orbs that are So resolutely far: The solitary asks, and they Give radiance as from ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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