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
- Decision
- A Winter Ship by Sylvia Plath
- Disillusionment Of Ten O’clock by Wallace Stevens
- Fragments
- The Mother by Patrick Pearse
- Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Money by William Henry Davies
- Владимир Высоцкий – Дела
- Damned by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Владимир Маяковский – Заря Коммуны разгорается туго… (РОСТА №856)
- UNREADABLE by Satish Verma
- Алишер Навои – Кто на стезе любви един
- Олег Григорьев – Жена торговала колбасой
- Владимир Британишский – Письмо
- God’s Abdication by Snowdon King
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.