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
- Стефан Малларме – Вздох
- Robert Burns: On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit : A wild scene among the Hills of Oughtertyre.
- Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns
- Frijolita by Manolo Arriola
- Ольга Берггольц – Романс стойкого оловянного солдатика
- Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
- “Call Not The Royal Swede Unfortunate” by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Lass That Made The Bed To Me :
- Николай Заболоцкий – Слепой
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Альфред де Мюссе – Люси
- Николай Заболоцкий – Поход
- To the Lady Margaret Ley poem – John Milton poems
- Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
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.