Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) –
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
Up to then there’d only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.
Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.
So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) –
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Late, by Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet CLIV by William Shakespeare
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Remains by Mark Strand
- Long, too Long, O Land! by Walt Whitman
- Федор Сологуб – Знаю знанием последним
- Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Adelgitha by Thomas Campbell
- On the Idle Hill of Summer poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: Her Answer:
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. In Examination. Руперт Брук.
- The Trap by Vachel Lindsay
- After The Visit by Thomas Hardy
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Philip Arthur Larkin (1922-1985), Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Cavalier of the Order of the Companions of Honour, was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.