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 ...
In this dream that dogs me I am partOf a silent crowd walking under a wall,Leaving a football match, perhaps, ...
At one the wind rose, And with it the noise Of the black poplars. Long since had the living By a thin twine Been led ...
When first we faced, and touching showedHow well we knew the early moves,Behind the moonlight and the frost,The excitement and ...
Watching the shied core Striking the basket, skidding across the floor, Shows less and less of luck, and more and ...
New eyes each yearFind old books here,And new books,too,Old eyes renew;So youth and ageLike ink and pageIn this house join,Minting ...
Like the train's beat Swift language flutters the lips Of the Polish airgirl in the corner seat, The swinging and ...
Is it for now or for always, The world hangs on a stalk? Is it a trick or a trysting-place, ...
This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured, This air, a little indistinct with autumn Like a reflection, constitute the ...
This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe Within a wood. (Philip Larkin)
Words as plain as hen-birds' wings Do not lie, Do not over-broider things - Are too shy. Thoughts that shuffle ...
Marrying left yor maiden name disused. Its five light sounds no longer mean your face, Your voice, and all your ...
The widest prairies have electric fences, For though old cattle know they must not stray Young steers are always scenting ...
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 ...
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forwith, and we Divide. And sure of what ...
Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are, As bribes to teach them how to execute Sixteen ...
Suspended lion face Spilling at the centre Of an unfurnished sky How still you stand, And how unaided Single stalkless ...
The little lives of earth and form, Of finding food, and keeping warm, Are not like ours, and yet A ...
At once whatever happened starts receding. Panting, and back on board, we line the rail With trousers ripped, light wallets, ...
Caught in the center of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were ...
Obedient daily dress, You cannot always keep That unfakable young surface. You must learn your lines - Anger, amusement, sleep; ...
On shallow straw, in shadeless glass, Huddled by empty bowls, they sleep: No dark, no dam, no earth, no grass ...
Thinking in terms of one Is easily done- One room, one bed, one chair, One person there, Makes perfect sense; ...
At one the wind rose, And with it the noise Of the black poplars. Long since had the living By ...
Delay, well, travellers must expect Delay. For how long? No one seems to know. With all the luggage weighed, the ...
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 ...
The trumpet's voice, loud and authoritative, Draws me a moment to the lighted glass To watch the dancers - all ...
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