First Sight (Philip Larkin Poem)
Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but ...
Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but ...
"These were never your true love's eyes. Why do you feign that you love them? You that broke from their ...
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
I had to go there, to see it for myself, to go there to test the theory of an accident, ...
Young Lochinvar came in from the West, With fringe on his trousers and fur on his vest; The width of ...
From citron-bower be her bed, cut from branch of tree a-flower, fashioned for her maidenhead. From Lydian apples, sweet of ...
These are the Signs to Nature's Inns -- Her invitation broad To Whosoever famishing To taste her mystic Bread -- ...
The Day she goes Or Day she stays Are equally supreme -- Existence has a stated width Departed, or at ...
Somewhere upon the general Earth Itself exist Today -- The Magic passive but extant That consecrated me -- Indifferent Seasons ...
No Man can compass a Despair -- As round a Goalless Road No faster than a Mile at once The ...
How many schemes may die In one short Afternoon Entirely unknown To those they most concern -- The man that ...
At leisure is the Soul That gets a Staggering Blow -- The Width of Life -- before it spreads Without ...
A Door just opened on a street -- I -- lost -- was passing by -- An instant's Width of ...
The Red -- Blaze -- is the Morning -- The Violet -- is Noon -- The Yellow -- Day -- ...
There is a meadow in Sweden where I lie smitten, eyes stained with clouds' white ins and outs. And about ...
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived ...
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The years had given ...
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The years had given ...
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The years had given ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of ...
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the ...
The little box gets her first teeth And her little length Little width little emptiness And all the rest she ...
Line the inside of the little box With your precious skin And make yourself cozy Just as you would in ...
As you descend, slowly, falling faster past you this snow, ghostly, some flakes bio- luminescent (you plunge, and this lit ...
Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away-- the detached first ...
I bend to the ground to catch something whispered, urgent, drifting across the ditches. The heaviness of flies stuttering in ...
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