For C.G.B.
When she came on, you couldn’t keep your seat;
Fighting your way up through the orchestra,
Tup-heavy bumpkin, you confused your feet,
Fell in the drum; how we went ha ha ha!
But once you gained her side and started waltzing
We all began to cheer; the way she leant
Her cheek on yours and laughed was so exalting
We thought you were stooging for the management.
But no. What you did, any of us might.
And saying so I see our difference:
Not your aplomb (I used mine to sit tight),
But fancying you improve her. Where’s the sense
In saying love, but meaning indifference ?
You’ll only change her. Still, I’m sure you’re right.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- An Old Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Adolescence by P. K. Page
- Английская поэзия. Редьярд Киплинг. «Эпитафии Войны». 1914-1918. 1. Убытки поровну. Rudyard Kipling. «Epitaphs of the War». 1914-1918. 1. «Equality of Sacrifice»
- Олег Бундур – Я вырасту, мама
- Robert Burns: Lines On Fergusson, The Poet :
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
- On the Garden Wall by Vachel Lindsay
- Николай Гербель – Введение к поэме
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не дыми, голова трещит
- The Treasure by Sara Teasdale
- Yasin Khan
- Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
- At Last the Secret is Out by W H Auden
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.