The Building (Philip Larkin Poem)
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, He, the handsome Yenadizze, Whom the people called the Storm-Fool, Vexed the village with disturbance; ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
I stood upon the hills, when heaven's wide arch Was glorious with the sun's returning march, And woods were brightened, ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid In his chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to ...
THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, And still I mused on that Thing imminent: At length I ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the ...
They talked to me again today, they spoke in gentle tones and said the things I ought to hear then ...
At break of day we rested, the contest of our wills declined to wrest the peace away and where the ...
I have been spiritually poisoned by the unclean, in ignorance blessed their springs. In consequence I withered and drifted down ...
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi' the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi' vew ...
In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi' the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi' vew ...
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, -- a bell ...
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
In my Spanish cloak, And old slouch hat, And overshoes of felt, And Tyke, my faithful dog, And my knotted ...
She took my strength by the minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon ...
Pass by citizen don't look left or right Keep those drip dry eyes straight ahead A tree? Chop it down- ...
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