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
- Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy
- Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes:
- Илья Эренбург – Жилье в горах, как всякое жилье
- Кипение
- Robert Burns: A Dream: Thoughts, words, and deeds, the Statute blames with reason; But surely Dreams were ne’er indicted Treason. On reading, in the public papers, the Laureate’s Ode, with the other parade of June 4th, 1786, the Author was no sooner dropt asleep, than he imagined himself transported to the Birth-day Levee: and, in his dreaming fancy, made the following Address:
- on our conditioning by Raj Arumugam
- We Miss You So Much by Ronald G. Auguste
- Алексей Ржевский – Как я стал знать взор твой
- He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge by William Butler Yeats
- Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Чичерин и тралеры отдает и прочее
- The Wayfarer by Sara Teasdale
- Олег Бундур – Идем мы с дедом
- Indications, The. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не отдавайте в физики детей
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.