Arrival (Philip Larkin Poem)
Morning, a glass door, flashes Gold names off the new city, Whose white shelves and domes travel The slow sky ...
Morning, a glass door, flashes Gold names off the new city, Whose white shelves and domes travel The slow sky ...
For C.G.B. When she came on, you couldn't keep your seat; Fighting your way up through the orchestra, Tup-heavy bumpkin, ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
This was the gods' god, The leashed divinity, Divine divining rod And Me within the me. By mindlight tower and ...
Then a ploughman said, "Speak to us of Work." And he answered, saying: You work that you may keep pace ...
Probably a bit painful reading the story always hearing the call to come to their assistance the man on that ...
Poverty, the lack of drinking water, famine, starvation, uninsured children, dying, a pandemic of diseases with known cures these are ...
There is more than enough, more than enough food, water to sustain the planet, that poverty, that hunger would vanish ...
We were the whip, the jeers, the scourging, the mocking of the soldiers bringing shame, pain, humiliation to the savior, ...
She raised words of actions calls to action, to not stand in the way; but to enable, to embolden, to ...
I have not always had this certainty, this pessimism which reassures the best among us. There was a time when ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
The Future -- never spoke -- Nor will He -- like the Dumb -- Reveal by sign -- a syllable ...
A Sickness of this World it most occasions When Best Men die. A Wishfulness their far Condition To occupy. A ...
'Twas warm -- at first -- like Us -- Until there crept upon A Chill -- like frost upon a ...
Silvered in the dying light she lies a silent sleeping twinkle coloured Eve who heaves and breathes a sinuous sigh ...
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi as these that had been sent by the two ...
What a misfortune, although you are made for fine and great works this unjust fate of yours always denies you ...
All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quite, persistent rain. What am I to myself ...
Love is no more. It died as the mind dies: the pure desire Relinquishing the blissful form it wore, The ...
I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me ...
I wanted to see the self, so I looked at the mulberry. It had no trouble accepting its limits, yet ...
Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new: a stale cake sold to kids, a 7-foot weed inside ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
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