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
- Вероника Тушнова – Утро (Вся ночь без сна)
- Time’s Defence poem – Alfred Austin
- from The Cave of Making by W H Auden
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Twelve O’Clock by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Cruel Mistress. by Thomas Carew
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- John Bleäke At Hwome At Night by William Barnes
- We Are As The Flute by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Dregs Of Love poem – Alfred Austin
- Superior by Rabindranath Tagore
- Repentance poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Song—Auld Rob Morris by Robert Burns
- A Souless Singer poem – Alfred Austin
- A Recantation by Rudyard Kipling
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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.