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 Fool Errant poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сивка-Бурка
- Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel
- Sigh No More by William Shakespeare
- Алексей Плещеев – Когда твой кроткий, ясный взор
- Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
- Олег Бундур – Семейный совет
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Николай Гумилев – Колокол
- Sonnet I: Loving In Truth by Sir Philip Sidney
- Fake Identity by Roberto Cocina
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- O God
- Earthy Anecdote by Wallace Stevens
- Sonnet To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
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.