The Old Fools (Philip Larkin Poem)
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
Out West, where the stars are brightest, Where the scorching north wind blows, And the bones of the dead gleam ...
Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven't they carried you everywhere, up to ...
Beneath the deep veranda's shade, When bats begin to fly, I sit me down and watch -- alas! -- Another ...
It??Ts two muddy miles from Highway 20, just past the north fork of Cache Creek, across the broad meadow, through ...
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may ...
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may ...
As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, To the billows of foam-crested blue, Yon bark, that ...
That flow of gallants which approach To kiss thy hand from out the coach; That fleet of lackeys which do ...
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me, And from ...
THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss, Out of the ...
I In days when men had joy of war, A God of Battles sped each mortal jar; The peoples pledged ...
We two kept house, the Past and I, The Past and I; I tended while it hovered nigh, Leaving me ...
I O the opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, And the woman riding high above with bright ...
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
Down in the mud I lay, Tired out by my long day Of five damned days and nights, Five sleepless ...
Living flames of the Savior the Holy Spirit burning within the light of God within us still guiding our steps ...
Nil mortalibus ardui est Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia Horace FROM Persian looms the silk he wove No Weaver meant should ...
AUGUST 17, 1914 The gabled roofs of old Malines Are russet red and gray and green, And o'er them in ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
In these quiet moments before the night softens the mountains of the South and deflates the clouds that float beneath ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
III Our sons have gone to serve the Reds to serve the Reds to risk their heads! O bitter,bitter pain, ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea, home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
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