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| 1861. | Deceptions by Philip Larkin | | "Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain
consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified to
discover that I had been ruined,... |
| 1862. | To Put One Brick Upon Another by Philip Larkin | | To put one brick upon another,
Add a third and then a forth,
Leaves no time to wonder whether
What you do has any worth.
But to sit with bri... |
| 1863. | Autobiography At An Air-Station by Philip Larkin | | Delay, well, travellers must expect
Delay. For how long? No one seems to know.
With all the luggage weighed, the tickets checked,
It can't be lo... |
| 1864. | Whatever Happened? by Philip Larkin | | At once whatever happened starts receding.
Panting, and back on board, we line the rail
With trousers ripped, light wallets, and lips bleeding.
Y... |
| 1865. | The Spirit Wooed by Philip Larkin | | Once I believed in you,
And then you came,
Unquestionably new, as fame
Had said you were. But that was long ago.
You launched no a... |
| 1866. | Triple Time by Philip Larkin | | This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured,
This air, a little indistinct with autumn
Like a reflection, constitute the present --
A time tra... |
| 1867. | A Plain Song For Comadre by Richard Wilbur | | Though the unseen may vanish, though insight
fails
And doubter and downcast saint
Join in the same complaint,
What holy things were ever frig... |
| 1868. | Praise In Summer by Richard Wilbur | | Obscurely yet most surely called to praise,
As sometimes summer calls us all, I said
The hills are heavens full of branching ways
Where star-nosed ... |
| 1869. | To the Etruscan Poets by Richard Wilbur | | Dream fluently, still brothers, who when young
Took with your mother's milk the mother tongue,
In which pure matrix, joining world and mind,
You ... |
| 1870. | Museum Piece by Richard Wilbur | | The good gray guardians of art
Patrol the halls on spongy shoes,
Impartially protective, though
Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.
Here dozes one a... |
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