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
- Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare
- South Africa by Ronald G. Auguste
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
- Inversnaid poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- come_out_with_me.html
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson:
- Владимир Британишский – В чащобах памяти кого не встретишь вдруг
- A Meeting by Wendell Berry
- Song Of The Enfifa River
- Eternal Drift by Satish Verma
- Epistle to John Rankine by Robert Burns
- Only If I Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- The Nautical Why poem – Amy Nawrocki poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water by William Butler Yeats
- Threshold by Rabindranath Tagore
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.