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
- Robert Burns: Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul:
- The Dawn by William Butler Yeats
- Requiem for Two by Vinko Kalinić
- The Road by Siegfried Sassoon
- Dream Girl by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть
- Betrayal by Priyanka Dutt
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Владимир Маяковский – Вегетарианцы
- Валерий Брюсов – К Армении
- All Hail To The Czar! poem – Alfred Austin
- Better And Best by John Oxenham
- Epitaph on William Hood, Senior by Robert Burns
- ‘They’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Любовь, любовь! веселым днем)
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.