Modesties (Philip Larkin Poem)
Words as plain as hen-birds' wings Do not lie, Do not over-broider things - Are too shy. Thoughts that shuffle ...
Words as plain as hen-birds' wings Do not lie, Do not over-broider things - Are too shy. Thoughts that shuffle ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
WHERE is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Not unfamiliar to my ear his name, Nor yet unknown to many ...
is by admitting or opening away. This is the simplest form of current: Blue moving through blue; blue through purple; ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
Now the golden Morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She wooes the tardy Spring: ...
Unembellished facts the heart of the story that is what came first the simplest telling of the story of the ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
Some one prepared this mighty show To which without a Ticket go The nations and the Days -- Displayed before ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
My pensive SARA ! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside ...
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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 know if I find you I will have to leave the earth and go on out over the sea ...
Rose, you majesty-once, to the ancients, you were just a calyx with the simplest of rims. But for us, you ...
WHAT nymph should I admire or trust, But Chloe beauteous, Chloe just? What nymph should I desire to see, But ...
Such glorious faith as fills your limpid eyes, Dear little friend of mine, I never knew. All-innocent are you, and ...
I saw thy form in youthful prime, Nor thought that pale decay Would steal before the steps of Time, And ...
"It fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he said unto his ...
There are places where the eye can starve, But not here. Here, for example, is The Piazza Navona, & here ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
I will give you all my keys, You shall be my ch?telaine, You shall enter as you please, As you ...
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