Maiden Name (Philip Larkin Poem)
Marrying left yor maiden name disused. Its five light sounds no longer mean your face, Your voice, and all your ...
Marrying left yor maiden name disused. Its five light sounds no longer mean your face, Your voice, and all your ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
Cat! who hast pass'd thy grand climacteric, How many mice and rats hast in thy days Destroy'd? How many tit ...
You happened to me. I was happened to like an abandoned building by a bull- dozer, like the van that ...
(for matt - 15) in the first seven years you choose your howdah having by then bare inklings of a ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
The need is greater than what we have funded long waiting lists and unfunded mandates Now in this cruel season ...
So much like Martha, lamenting our minds so busy, cluttered, to do lists calling, attention, focus pulling us away, from ...
Busy, busy lives, moving from task to task lists and messages, and calls, a barrage of things, things to capture ...
Albert were what you'd call "thwarted". He had long had an ambition, which... Were to save up and go to ...
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
Had I presumed to hope -- The loss had been to Me A Value -- for the Greatness' Sake -- ...
Of all the Souls that stand create -- I have elected -- One -- When Sense from Spirit -- files ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Happy the lab'rer in his Sunday clothes! In light-drab coat, smart waistcoat, well-darn'd hose, Andhat upon his head, to church ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
Long I fought the driving lists, Plume a-stream and armor clanging; Link on link, between my wrists, Now my heavy ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
Joust First. I. Bright shone the lists, blue bent the skies, And the knights still hurried amain To the tournament ...
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