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
- The Arrow by William Butler Yeats
- The Dirge of Wallace by Thomas Campbell
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Утро
- ” As faith thus sanctified the warrior’s crest” by William Wordsworth
- A Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Base Details by Siegfried Sassoon
- Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- dear owl, forlorn like King Lear by Raj Arumugam
- The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit by Vachel Lindsay
- The Columbian Exchange Beginning With Spanish Colonization
- Федор Сологуб – Терцинами писать как будто очень трудно
- Song—Sweet Afton by Robert Burns
- Romulus and Remus by Rudyard Kipling
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.