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
- Lover’s Gifts XL: A Message Came by Rabindranath Tagore
- Michael Robartes And The Dancer by William Butler Yeats
- In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams by Wendell Berry
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия (Он жил в сем мире для того)
- Михаил Кузмин – Врезанные в песок заливы
- On A Political Prisoner by William Butler Yeats
- Ouija by Sylvia Plath
- Анатолий Жигулин – Не надо бояться памяти
- Song—Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Маяковский – Еще Петербург
- Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb. by Walt Whitman
- The Hollow Woak by William Barnes
- I have no complaint by Sappho
- Юлия Друнина – Ты рядом
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.