The Old Fools (Philip Larkin Poem)
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
What do they think has happened, the old fools, To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose It's more ...
A mist was driving down the British Channel, The day was just begun, And through the window-panes, on floor and ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
He climbed to the top of one of those million white pines set out across the emptying pastures of the ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
A dream of mine flew over the mead To the halls where my old Love reigns; And it drew me ...
when they look into his mind they find a hill town somewhat surprised they go off to their learned books ...
Turkeys, a pair, maybe more in the bushes sailing, low-flying across the highway oblivious, unaware filling my windshield, the horizon ...
Even from my speeding car, a half mile or more away They cut silently through the skin of the lake ...
Some days, some of them are like stopping a train wreck, already in progress, the sequence of events long since ...
Who should come up the road one day But the doctor-man in his two-wheel shay! And he whoaed his horse ...
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
My first job was when I was about 15. I had met a girl named Hope who became my best ...
Since the fern can't go to the sink for a drink of water, I graciously submit myself to the task, ...
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: ...
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I ...
Travelling on the thumb, it wasn't hard to do, you took the rides that you could get with no regrets ...
At dawn I dreamed of wispy clouds, I had the time to wield and watched the regimented lines of cirrus ...
It was a fat-tyred 4WD utility hard back, the sort of ute you'd expect a contractor to drive, except it ...
The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years ...
I walked into the night-club in the morning; There was kummel on the handle of the door. The ashtrays were ...
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...
When I knew, it was raining. Winter in decline. I was tired. You in your soaked shirt diffused into the ...
From the metal poppy this good blast of trance arriving as shock, private cloudburst blazing down, worst in a boarding-house ...
Sprawl is the quality of the man who cut down his Rolls-Royce into a farm utility truck, and sprawl is ...
Hark, oh hark the elfin laughter All the little waves along, As if echoes speeding after Mocked a merry merman's ...
Oh, the charm of idle dreaming Where the dappled shadows dance, All the leafy aisles are teeming With the lure ...
He woke up in New York City on Valentine's Day, Speeding. The body in the booth next to his was ...
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