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 Curse Upon Edward by Thomas Gray
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
- Lit Instructor by William Stafford
- Омар Хайям – Бокала полного веселый вид мне люб
- The Freshness by Rumi
- Nicholas Nye by Walter de la Mare
- Distant Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Василий Курочкин – Ни в мать, ни в отца
- NOCHE MARINA by Victoria l.mora paoli
- Prayer of Columbus. by Walt Whitman
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division.
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не дыми, голова трещит
- I Dream’d in a Dream. by Walt Whitman
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.