Sexual intercourse began
In nineteen sixty-three
(which was rather late for me) –
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
Up to then there’d only been
A sort of bargaining,
A wrangle for the ring,
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything.
Then all at once the quarrel sank:
Everyone felt the same,
And every life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank,
A quite unlosable game.
So life was never better than
In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) –
Between the end of the Chatterley ban
And the Beatles’ first LP.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view by William Shakespeare
- The Oak and the Rose by Shel Silverstein
- Ок Мельникова – Не в этот раз
- Lost and Found by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Robert Burns: My Eppie Adair:
- Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Если белогвардейщину не добьем совсем… (РОСТА №148)
- Юлия Друнина – Царевна
- Behold the hour by Robert Burns
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- Robert Burns: Ploughman’s Life, The:
- A Te Deum poem – Alfred Austin
- Not the Pilot. by Walt Whitman
- Deftly, Admiral, Cast Your Fly by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver:
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.