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
- Epitaph On Mr. Chester Of Chicheley by William Cowper
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
- The Merchant of Copan [In English and Spanish]
- Holy Communion
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тот, кто раньше с нею был
- The Wrath of Love by Shawn Ervin
- The Song of the Borderguard by Robert Duncan
- On Friendship by Phillis Wheatley
- Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Корнилов – Обещание
- The Investiture by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Song poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- The Gravy Train by Michael Levy
- Юлия Друнина – Ялта Чехова
- Poem by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
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.