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
- Lamhe by Priyanka Tungana
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
- Владимир Британишский – Край Земли
- Patience poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Yankee Doodle by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Бундур – У кромки моря
- Be’mi’ster by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – Дешевая распродажа
- In A Railroad Station by Sara Teasdale
- Twiddle-de-dee by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Владимир Маяковский – Для чего оттягивают паны мириться?.. (РОСТА №264)
- Владимир Корнилов – Державинское
- The Steeple-Jack by Marianne Moore
- Monument by Satish Verma
- Adam by Rainer Maria Rilke
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.