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
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
- Ольга Седакова – Хильдегарда
- In A Restaurant by Sara Teasdale
- On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Kinetic Poem 2 by Roger McGough
- A Sort Of A Song by William Carlos Williams
- Before Sleep poem – Ezra Pound poems
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- Влад Амелин – Приумножай добро
- The Dunciad: Book I. poem – Alexander Pope
- Lines Written On A Blank Leaf In A Copy Of The Author’s Poem “The Excursion,” by William Wordsworth
- Il Penseroso poem – John Milton poems
- Tear of warm dew of mind by Seema Gupta
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.