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 5: Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace by William Cowper
- On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean by William Cowper
- Special Problems in Vocabulary by Tony Hoagland
- In The Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- Ольга Седакова – Филемон и Бавкида
- Николай Гумилев – Избиение женихов
- The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats
- Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
- A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning
- The Editor by William Ellery Leonard
- Жан де Лафонтен – Карман
- Владимир Высоцкий – Про королевское шествие
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- Владимир Британишский – Били в армии, в школе, в столице, в селе
- Stones
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.