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 ...
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
in the dirt, the lawn, just barely visible a bit of smooth color, catching the light the wet earth, after ...
I went to turn the grass once after one Who mowed it in the dew before the sun. The dew ...
I'm sorry for the Dead -- Today -- It's such congenial times Old Neighbors have at fences -- It's time ...
We wear scars from our youth, trifling things reflecting those earnings from growing days, of battles raised and wounds worn ...
The murkiness of the local garage is not so dense that you cannot make out the calendar of pinup drawings ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The evening comes, the fields are still. The tinkle of the thirsty rill, Unheard all day, ascends again; Deserted is ...
Cruising these residential Sunday streets in dry August sunlight: what offends us is the sanities: the houses in pedantic rows, ...
Past the despairing wail-- And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away! Delight, that breathes and ...
A ROBIN in the morning, In the morning early, Sang a song of warning, "There'll be rain, there'll be rain." ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
I am no one and never will be anyone, for I am far too small to claim to be; not ...
This is the grass your feet are planted on. You paint it orange or you sing it green, But you ...
I I dream of journeys repeatedly: Of flying like a bat deep into a narrowing tunnel Of driving alone, without ...
'Twas on the 9th of September, a very beautiful day, That a numerous English army came in grand array, And ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Heark how the Mower Damon Sung, With love of Juliana stung! While ev'ry thing did seem to paint The Scene ...
Hence, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights ...
each day mowed and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre, the machine slicing a wisp from each blade's tip. ...
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