Modesties (Philip Larkin Poem)
Words as plain as hen-birds' wings Do not lie, Do not over-broider things - Are too shy. Thoughts that shuffle ...
Words as plain as hen-birds' wings Do not lie, Do not over-broider things - Are too shy. Thoughts that shuffle ...
Morning, a glass door, flashes Gold names off the new city, Whose white shelves and domes travel The slow sky ...
Once I believed in you, And then you came, Unquestionably new, as fame Had said you were. But that was ...
Higher than the handsomest hotel The lucent comb shows up for miles, but see, All round it close-ribbed streets rise ...
Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home For lack of money, and it is all right. Places ...
Slowly the women file to where he stands Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair, Dark suit, white collar. Stewards tirelessly ...
When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, ...
Continuing to live -- that is, repeat A habit formed to get necessaries -- Is nearly always losing, or going ...
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, ...
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