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
- Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor by William Cowper
- On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture by William Cowper
- The First Lover
- Beautiful Stranger by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Мы предчувствовали полыханье
- Your Eyes by Omair Bhat
- Ireland. by Sidney Lanier
- The Hidden Law by W H Auden
- Give Me Back My Rags #11 by Vasko Popa
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- Against Hope
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Cruisers by Rudyard Kipling
- Василий Казин – Мой отец простой водопроводчик
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.