The Building (Philip Larkin Poem)
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
I cry your mercy-pity-love!-aye, love! Merciful love that tantalizes not, One-thoughted, never-wandering, guileless love, Unmasked, and being seen-without a blot! ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be ...
In Italy, where this sort of thing can occur, I had a vision once - though you understand It was ...
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would ...
Thou fair hair'd angel of the evening, Now, while the sun rests on the mountains light, Thy bright torch of ...
Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, then I was dead, Though, like a stone, ...
You come in late, wiping your lips. What did I leave untouched on the doorstep--- White Nike, Streaming between my ...
Outside the afterlight's lucent rose Is smiting the hills and brimming the valleys, And shadows are stealing across the snows; ...
Come, for the dusk is our own; let us fare forth together, With a quiet delight in our hearts for ...
When the salt wave laps on the long, dim shore, And frets the reef with its windy sallies, And the ...
Frosty-white and cold it lies Underneath the fretful skies; Snowflakes flutter where the red Banners of the poppies spread, And ...
It came to him in rainbow dreams, Blent with the wisdom of the sages, Of spirit and of passion born; ...
Over the fields we go, through the sweets of the purple clover, That letters a message for us as for ...
Here is a voice that soundeth low and far And lyricvoice of wind among the pines, Where the untroubled, glimmering ...
When the lucent skies of morning flush with dawning rose once more, And waves of golden glory break adown the ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Once, at night, in the manor wood My Love and I long silent stood, Amazed that any heavens could Decree ...
He's fast asleep. See how, O Wife, Night's finger on the lip of life Bids whist the tongue, so prattle-rife, ...
Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats. Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields, My large unjealous Loves, many yet one -- ...
In the heart of the Hills of Life, I know Two springs that with unbroken flow Forever pour their lucent ...
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