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
- The Alchemist’s Petition by Vachel Lindsay
- Степан Щипачев – Атака
- Sonnet. On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’ poem – John Keats poems
- We put the urn aboard ship by Sappho
- Amity’s Death by SAAJIDA GORA
- Opifex by Thomas Edward Brown
- The Rowing Song by Roald Dahl
- The Vier-Zide by William Barnes
- Request
- The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
- Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Last Letter by Priyanka Tungana
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
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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.