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
- Владимир Маяковский – Давайте и получите (РОСТА №495)
- Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
- Юлия Друнина – В голом парке коченеют клёны
- Карина, ты моя любимая
- XV: Some Verses: Ciprian’s Smyling by William Alexander
- Николай Гумилев – Заводи
- Английская поэзия. Редьярд Киплинг. «Эпитафии Войны». 1914-1918. 1. Убытки поровну. Rudyard Kipling. «Epitaphs of the War». 1914-1918. 1. «Equality of Sacrifice»
- Robert Burns: The Belles Of Mauchline:
- A Statesman’s Holiday by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 66. Томас Мур.
- The Daguerreotype by William Vaughn Moody
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Троянки (перевод)
- Sonnet Vi
- Atalanta’s Race by William Morris
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character:
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.