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
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Коль станешь твердым
- Tell me not here, it needs not saying poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Empty Pages by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Английская поэзия. Уильям Шекспир. Сонет 139. Оправдывать меня не принуждай. William Shakespeare. Sonnet 139. o call not me to justify the wrong
- My Mother by Claude McKay
- Enough by Sara Teasdale
- Огюст Барбье – Мельпомена
- Songs of Depression poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Tulips by Sylvia Plath
- 1954 by Sharon Olds
- My Country Place by Thomas J Camp
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Song by Seamus Heaney
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.