Down stucco sidestreets,
Where light is pewter
And afternoon mist
Brings lights on in shops
Above race-guides and rosaries,
A funeral passes.
The hearse is ahead,
But after there follows
A troop of streetwalkers
In wide flowered hats,
Leg-of-mutton sleeves,
And ankle-length dresses.
There is an air of great friendliness,
As if they were honouring
One they were fond of;
Some caper a few steps,
Skirts held skilfully
(Someone claps time),
And of great sadness also.
As they wend away
A voice is heard singing
Of Kitty, or Katy,
As if the name meant once
All love, all beauty.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Илона Грошева – Любовь две синички на ветке
- Василий Казин – Мой отец простой водопроводчик
- Indian Weavers by Sarojini Naidu
- Paradise Lost: Book 11 poem – John Milton poems
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- epitaph_for_our_children.html
- Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- At Daybreak by Siegfried Sassoon
- Gyrations by Satish Verma
- Enough by Sara Teasdale
- Francesca poem – Ezra Pound poems
- From The ‘Antigone’ by William Butler Yeats
- The Crystal Gazer by Sara Teasdale
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.