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
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- Impromptu on Carron Iron Works by Robert Burns
- Владимир Костров – Не трогайте жанр
- The Disquieting Muses by Sylvia Plath
- Михаил Кузмин – Выздоравливающей
- Sonnet CX by William Shakespeare
- An Epithalamium by Sappho
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- night_piece.html
- An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Robert Burns: Thou Gloomy December :
- Last Invocation, The. by Walt Whitman
- Set out by Mahak Raithatha S
- Virginibus Puerisque
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
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.