Wires (Philip Larkin Poem)
The widest prairies have electric fences, For though old cattle know they must not stray Young steers are always scenting ...
Philip Larkin Poems on Sense & Perception (10 Poems)
Counting (Philip Larkin Poem)
Thinking in terms of one Is easily done- One room, one bed, one chair, One person there, Makes perfect sense; ...
The Importance Of Elsewhere (Philip Larkin Poem)
Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home, Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech, Insisting so on difference, ...
Faith Healing (Philip Larkin Poem)
Slowly the women file to where he stands Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair, Dark suit, white collar. Stewards tirelessly ...
He Hears That His Beloved Has Become Engaged (Philip Larkin Poem)
For C.G.B. When she came on, you couldn't keep your seat; Fighting your way up through the orchestra, Tup-heavy bumpkin, ...
Love, We Must Part Now (Philip Larkin Poem)
Love, we must part now: do not let it be Calamitious and bitter. In the past There has been too ...
Maturity (Philip Larkin Poem)
A stationary sense... as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired; Then I shall start ...
Aubade (Philip Larkin Poem)
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the ...
Love Again (Philip Larkin Poem)
Love again: wanking at ten past three (Surely he's taken her home by now?), The bedroom hot as a bakery, ...
The Whitsun Weddings (Philip Larkin Poem)
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull ...