The Mower (Philip Larkin Poem)
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the ...
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed. It had been in the ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and ...
'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
at the track today, Father's Day, each paid admission was entitled to a wallet and each contained a little surprise. ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
The night before I left Milan A mob jammed the Cathedral Square, And high the tide of passion ran As ...
There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have ...
Three men I saw beside a bar, Regarding o'er their bottle, A frog who smoked a rank cigar They'd jammed ...
THE MARE Alix breaks the world's trotting record one day. I see her heels flash down the dust of an ...
Whosever room this is should be ashamed! His underwear is hanging on the lamp. His raincoat is there in the ...
The sheep were shorn and the wool went down At the time of our local racing; And I'd earned a ...
In the willows along the river at Pleasure Bay A catbird singing, never the same phrase twice. Here under the ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
The hands of the clock were reaching high In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid ...
There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night -- Ten to make and the match to win -- A bumping ...
'Twas in the year of 1858, and on October the fourteenth day, That a fire broke out in a warehouse, ...
Roar of the rushing train fearfully rocking, Impatient people jammed in line for food, The rasping noise of cars together ...
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