Vers De Soci (Philip Larkin Poems)
My wife and I have asked a crowd of crapsTo come and waste their time and ours: perhapsYou'd care to ...
My wife and I have asked a crowd of crapsTo come and waste their time and ours: perhapsYou'd care to ...
Once I believed in you, And then you came, Unquestionably new, as fame Had said you were. But that was ...
Standing under the fobbed Impendent belly of Time Tell me the truth, I said, Teach me the way things go. ...
Beyond all this, the wish to be alone: However the sky grows dark with invitation-cards However we follow the printed ...
My wife and I have asked a crowd of craps To come and waste their time and ours: perhaps You'd ...
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
For nations vague as weed, For nomads among stones, Small-statured cross-faced tribes And cobble-close families In mill-towns on dark mornings ...
Slowly the women file to where he stands Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair, Dark suit, white collar. Stewards tirelessly ...
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, Screen ...
'Dockery was junior to you, Wasn't he?' said the Dean. 'His son's here now.' Death-suited, visitant, I nod. 'And do ...
Come to Sunny Prestatyn Laughed the girl on the poster, Kneeling up on the sand In tautened white satin. Behind ...
I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life. It makes ...
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead. In the sun the slagheap slept. Down the lane ...
A stationary sense... as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired; Then I shall start ...
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound ...
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And ...
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the ...
When I see a couple of kids And guess he's fucking her and she's Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, ...
Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) - Between the end of the Chatterley ban ...
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