Whatever Happened? (Philip Larkin Poem)
At once whatever happened starts receding. Panting, and back on board, we line the rail With trousers ripped, light wallets, ...
At once whatever happened starts receding. Panting, and back on board, we line the rail With trousers ripped, light wallets, ...
So you rode from the range where your brothers "select," Through the ghostly grey bush in the dawn--- You rode ...
1 Only today and just for this minute, when the sunslant finds its true angle, you can see yellow and ...
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, ...
The tightness and the nilness round that space when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect its make ...
With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of ...
Our light exposed put up on the lampstand shining in the darkness the hope of all mankind Christ in that ...
The metaphor profound yet there before us the ice giving way to the salt of the earth Spreading salt on ...
Falling from the higher ground down toward the city out of the sunshine just before dusk the light warmer an ...
My steps visible in the receding tide the sand saturated until I pass by White from my weight certain I ...
The beach different not coarse sand of rocky outcroppings smooth stones glistening at the water's edge Polished smooth contours not ...
Like the man, the star thrower, reaching down, into the warm skin of the water touching the warming sand, throwing ...
The poster with my picture on it Is hanging on the bulletin board in the Post Office. I stand by ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
The long sigh of the Frog Upon a Summer's Day Enacts intoxication Upon the Revery -- But his receding Swell ...
Cocoon above! Cocoon below! Stealthy Cocoon, why hide you so What all the world suspect? An hour, and gay on ...
Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain ...
As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for ...
She was very strange, and beautiful, as the violet mist upon the hills before night falls when the hoot owl ...
THE human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Remembering the Strait of Belle Isle or some northerly harbor of Labrador, before he became a schoolteacher a great-uncle painted ...
For Robert Lowell This is the time of year when almost every night the frail, illegal fire balloons appear. Climbing ...
Wind blows. Snow falls. The great clock in its tower Ticks with reverberant coil and tolls the hour: At the ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
Yesterday a passing, transient shower, Slaked my thirst so gently, softly, Showers in March are unheard - In this arid ...
Love, you have led me to the strand, Here, where the stilly, sunset sea, Ever receding silently, Lays bare a ...
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories