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
- The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
- Concealment
- Christmas poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Весна (Город зимнее снял)
- Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти В. Башкина
- Politics by William Butler Yeats
- Sweet And Low poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Алисы
- Владимир Британишский – По Иртышу
- The Gallery poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Water Strider
- Ольга Берггольц – Я все оставляю тебе при уходе
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.