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
- Batty by Shel Silverstein
- The Rice Boat
- Ольга Седакова – Все труды
- Ars Poetica
- A Song at Weicheng. by Wang Wei
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hepatica by Satish Verma
- Sonnet II by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Корнилов – Надежда
- Ode. Written On The Blank Page Before Beaumont And Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid Of The In poem – John Keats poems
- The Holy Grail poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ольга Седакова – Дикий шиповник
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Blank Joy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
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.