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| 1851. | Parousia by Louise Gluck | | Love of my life, you
Are lost and I am
Young again.
A few years pass.
The air fills
With girlish music;
In the front yard
The apple tree is
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| 1852. | Sad Steps by Philip Larkin | | Groping back to bed after a piss
I part the thick curtains, and am startled by
The rapid clouds, the moon's cleanliness.
Four o'clock: wedge-shap... |
| 1853. | Poetry Of Departures by Philip Larkin | | Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand,
As epitaph:
He chucked up everything
And just cleared off,
And always the voice will sound
Certain you approve
T... |
| 1854. | Next, Please by Philip Larkin | | Always too eager for the future, we
Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
Something is always approaching; every day
Till then we say,
Watching from... |
| 1855. | The Explosion by Philip Larkin | | On the day of the explosion
Shadows pointed towards the pithead.
In the sun the slagheap slept.
Down the lane came men in pitboots
Coughing oath... |
| 1856. | Lines On A Young Lady's Photograph Album by Philip Larkin | | At last you yielded up the album, which
Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages
Matt and glossy on the thick black pages!
Too much confectione... |
| 1857. | Love, We Must Part Now by Philip Larkin | | Love, we must part now: do not let it be
Calamitious and bitter. In the past
There has been too much moonlight and self-pity:
Let us have done wi... |
| 1858. | Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin | | Come to Sunny Prestatyn
Laughed the girl on the poster,
Kneeling up on the sand
In tautened white satin.
Behind her, a hunk of coast, a
Hotel wi... |
| 1859. | The North Ship by Philip Larkin | | Legend
I saw three ships go sailing by,
Over the sea, the lifting sea,
And the wind rose in the morning sky,
And one was rigged for a long journ... |
| 1860. | The Importance Of Elsewhere by Philip Larkin | | Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,
Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,
Insisting so on difference, made me welcome:
Once t... |
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