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 Distant Winter by Philip Levine
- Ольга Ермолаева – На каблуках-то и то к голове удалой
- The Rose by William Browne
- One Viceroy Resigns by Rudyard Kipling
- Sun and Fun poem – John Betjeman poems
- Grammer A-Crippled by William Barnes
- Genius
- Владимир Вишневский – Незаконная гордость
- Sonnet 129: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Вологдин – Не играйте, мальчики, в войну
- Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Владимир Британишский – Итальянское путешествие
- Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath
- In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Song Composed In August:
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.