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 ...
The squatter saw his pastures wide Decrease, as one by one The farmers moving to the west Selected on his ...
Now in the suburbs and the falling light I followed him, and now down sandy road Whitter than bone-dust, through ...
Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse Was good beyond all earthly need; But, on the other hand, her spouse Was ...
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
Hard as hurdle arms, with a broth of goldish flue Breathed round; the rack of ribs; the scooped flank; lank ...
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
Be Strong in the Lord so said the church's sign by the roadside, many weeks gone by What did the ...
I raced from court We stood beside you, beside the hospital bed, awaiting the surgeon Husband and pastor, touching you, ...
When the pods went pop on the broom, green broom, And apples began to be golden-skinn'd, We harbour'd a stag ...
I Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle ...
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
I. Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles On the solitary pastures where our sheep Half-asleep Tinkle ...
By the winding Wollondilly where the weeping willows weep, And the shepherd, with his billy, half awake and half asleep, ...
Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands ...
Now this was what Macpherson told While waiting in the stand; A reckless rider, over-bold, The only man with hands ...
The sheep were shorn and the wool went down At the time of our local racing; And I'd earned a ...
Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the ...
Last night I dreamed of chickens, there were chickens everywhere, they were standing on my stomach, they were nesting in ...
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
'Twas Mulga Bill, from Eaglehawk, that caught the cycling craze; He turned away the good old horse that served him ...
There was movement at the station, for the word has passed around That the colt from old Regret had got ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
"Only a pound," said the auctioneer, "Only a pound; and I'm standing here Selling this animal, gain or loss -- ...
The boys had come back from the races All silent and down on their luck; They'd backed 'em, straight out ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
It chanced out back at the Christmas time, When the wheat was ripe and tall, A stranger rode to the ...
What! you don't like him; well, maybe -- we all have our fancies, of course: Brumby to look at, you ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
Halted against the shade of a last hill, They fed, and, lying easy, were at ease And, finding comfortable chests ...
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