The Whitsun Weddings (Philip Larkin Poem)
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...
After the first astounding rush, after the weeks at the lake, the crystal, the clouds, the water lapping the rocks, ...
To Jenny came a gentle youth From inland leazes lone; His love was fresh as apple-blooth By Parrett, Yeo, or ...
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. As for the Greek theatrical tradition Which represents ...
To live as God commands to be salt to the earth to take on the Christ to be light to ...
All we do, all we think the words of our mouths the way we walk in life all is in ...
The skin of the lake sliced not quite silently the fiberglass keel cutting the waves yet almost still after midnight ...
God planting a seed a hope for reconciliation one people, one hope in him after major pruning Turning his back ...
Rereading his message on this day important to our land the major sermon the world as God would see it ...
Eight silent canoes Pushed off onto the still waters At 2am on a July night. The full moon and stars ...
Mom was at home Mrs. Foss was The vacation bible school teacher, The den mother, The class mother. They were ...
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
The Manner of its Death When Certain it must die -- 'Tis deemed a privilege to choose -- 'Twas Major ...
It grew out of the Annexe and our Corps in a world at peace while our army trained, magnificent in ...
The meter I had sought to find, perplexed, was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose. I found ...
Let me take this other glove off As the vox humana swells, And the beauteous fields of Eden Bask beneath ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
THIS day, Time winds th' exhausted chain; To run the twelvemonth's length again: I see, the old bald-pated fellow, With ...
Welcome, thrice welcome, to the city of Dundee, The great African explorer Henry M Stanley, Who went out to Africa ...
'Twas in the year of 1878, and. the winter had set in, Lord Roberts and the British Army their march ...
'Twas in the year of 1874, and on New Year's Day, The British Army landed at Elmina without dismay, And ...
It was on the 21st of March in the year of 1801, The British were at their posts every man; ...
Ye sons of Great Britain, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Garnet Wolseley; Sound drums and ...
Ye Sons of Mars, it gives me great content To think there has been erected a handsome monument In memory ...
'Twas near the Begum Kothie the battle began, Where innocent blood as plentiful as water ran; The Begum Kothie was ...
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom, and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, ...
(AN ECHO FROM A LARGER LYRE.) That was love that I had before Years ago, when my heart was young; ...
As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a ...
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