Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
Whatever they are,
As bribes to teach them how to execute
Sixteen sexual positions on the sand;
This makes them join (the boys) the tennis club,
Jive at the Mecca, use deodorants, and
On Saturdays squire ex-schoolgirls to the pub
By private car.
Such uncorrected visions end in church
Or registrar:
A mortgaged semi- with a silver birch;
Nippers; the widowed mum; having to scheme
With money; illness; age. So absolute
Maturity falls, when old men sit and dream
Of naked native girls who bring breadfruit
Whatever they are.
End of the poem
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- Freddy by Stevie Smith
- Robert Burns: My Native Land Sae Far Awa:
- For Someone, Somewhere, In Relation by Shaunna Harper
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я счастлив, тайный яд течёт в моей крови
- “`Were I a Poet, I would dwell” poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Highland Harry Back Again:
- The Stranger poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The Death of Knowledge by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Ruined World by Michael Yuan
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Hymn to Spiritual Desire. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath
- Dusk In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Robert Burns: Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge:
- Artegal And Elidure by William Wordsworth
- A Token by Robert Creeley
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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.