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
- Stans Puer ad Mensam by Sir Walter Raleigh
- “Look up, desponding hearts! See, Morning sallies” poem – Alfred Austin
- Whitsun by Sylvia Plath
- On The Cliffs Newport
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo :
- Muse poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Федор Сологуб – Ландыши, ландыши, бедные цветы
- The Geography of the House by W H Auden
- The Way poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Couplet 11 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- America by Walter William Safar
- Gethsemane by Rudyard Kipling
- Polyphemus poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonet 55 by William Alexander
- Юрий Левитанский – Человек, строящий воздушные замки
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.