Breadfruit (Philip Larkin Poem)
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are, As bribes to teach them how to execute Sixteen ...
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are, As bribes to teach them how to execute Sixteen ...
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen ...
The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and main; ...
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...
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