An Arundel Tomb (Philip Larkin Poem)
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed ...
Side by side, their faces blurred, The earl and countess lie in stone, Their proper habits vaguely shown As jointed ...
The boom and blare of the big brass band is cheering to my heart And I like the smell of ...
The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top And carves out the round stemmed lid, The hole of which ...
Like a good parent an assistant to the potter a servant of the gardener there when the master calls Watching, ...
A Fond Athenian Mother brought A Sculptor to indulge her Thought, And carve her Only Son; Who to such strange ...
The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm, Because she still is naked, being drest; The godlike sculptor will not so ...
Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, ...
And so I had a glaring revelation, I couldn't find the poet in the man although I read his life ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...
A FOREFINGER of stone, dreamed by a sculptor, points to the sky. It says: This way! this way! Four lions ...
YOU will come one day in a waver of love, Tender as dew, impetuous as rain, The tan of the ...
BEAUTY, the attribute of Heaven! In various forms to mortals given, With magic skill enslaves mankind, As sportive fancy sways ...
Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides, In thickest mists of vapours fell, Where wily Serpents hissing glare And ...
Why, through each aching vein, with lazy pace Thus steals the languid fountain of my heart, While, from its source, ...
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...
We're talking different kinds of vulnerability here. These icicles aren't going to last for ever Suspended in the ultra violet ...
When you entered the workshop, I was already here. How many statues, and torsos, and heads ! Like remains of ...
She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon ...
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