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
- Psalm 83 poem – John Milton poems
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat poem – John Keats poems
- Wake Not for the World-Heard Thunder poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee: With an Impression of the Author’s Portrait.
- The Lady And The Earthenware Head by Sylvia Plath
- The Last Flower poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: The Wren’s Nest: Fragment
- Dirge by William Shakespeare
- A Song About Myself poem – John Keats poems
- The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 22. Let Erin Remember the Days of Old. Томас Мур.
- Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women by Anne Sexton
- The Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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.