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
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE by Robert Herrick
- Let It Be Forgotten by Sara Teasdale
- Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet IV by William Shakespeare
- So I Said I Am Ezra poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Hail, Zaragoza! If With Unwet eye by William Wordsworth
- Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Written In A Blank Leaf Of Macpherson’s Ossian by William Wordsworth
- The Oak Of Guernica Supposed Address To The Same by William Wordsworth
- Aix In Provence by Robert Browning
- Blessens A-Left by William Barnes
- The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
- Hoppleroopleoopledook by Pornika Ganguly
- Нина Воронель – Игарка
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.