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Philip Larkin
(1922 - 1985 / West Midlands / England)
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''And girls you have to tell to pull their socks up
Are those whose pants you'd most like to pull down.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Administration."
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''And why was all
Your body sharpened against me, vigilant,
Watchful, when all I meant
Was to make it bright, that it might stand
Burnished before my tent?''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Deep Analysis."
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''calm and dry,
It holds you like a heaven, and you lie
Unvariably lovely there,
Smaller and clearer as the years go by.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1985), British poet. Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album (l. 42-45). . .
Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwait...
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''Books; china; a life
Reprehensibly perfect.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Poetry of Departures."
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''"A woman has ten claws,"
Sang the drunken boatswain....''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The North Ship."
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All the familiar horrors we
Associate with others
Are coming fast along our way:
The wind is warning in our tree
And morning papers still betray
The shrieking of the mothers...
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "After-Dinner Remarks."
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I could not follow your wishes, but I know
If they assuaged you
It would not be crying in this dark, your sorrow,
It would not be crying, so
That my own heart drifts and cries, h...
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Deep Analysis."
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''Those flowers, that gate,
These misty parks and motors, lacerate
Simply by being over; you
Contract my heart by looking out of date.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1985), British poet. Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album (l. 27-30). . .
Collected Poems of Philip Larkin. Anthony Thwait...
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''He walked out on the whole crowd
Leaves me flushed and stirred,
Like Then she undid her dress
Or Take that you bastard;
Surely I can, if he did?''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "Poetry of Departures."
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''That is where they live:
Not here and now, but where all happened once.
This is why they give
An air of baffled absence, trying to be there
Yet being here.''
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Philip Larkin (1922-1986), British poet. "The Old Fools."
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