That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
Like New Orleans reflected on the water,
And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes,
Building for some a legendary Quarter
Of balconies, flower-baskets and quadrilles,
Everyone making love and going shares–
Oh, play that thing! Mute glorious Storyvilles
Others may license, grouping around their chairs
Sporting-house girls like circus tigers (priced
Far above rubies) to pretend their fads,
While scholars manqués nod around unnoticed
Wrapped up in personnels like old plaids.
On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City
Is where your speech alone is understood,
And greeted as the natural noise of good,
Scattering long-haired grief and scored pity.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Николай Гумилев – Новорожденному
- To Dr. MReading Mathmatics by William Somervile
- Robert Burns: Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac:
- Insomniac by Maya Angelou
- The Unheeded Pageant by Rabindranath Tagore
- Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors by William Butler Yeats
- Love Flower
- Владимир Британишский – Снились двое товарищей по Салехарду
- The Moon is a Painter by Vachel Lindsay
- Алишер Навои – Осрамился я
- Hope In Spring by William Barnes
- All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
- Answers by Mark Strand
- The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наброски песен к несостоявшемуся спектаклю по сказкам Шергина
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.