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
- Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College by Thomas Gray
- Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- The workers by Sunil Sharma
- A Zong Of Harvest Hwome by William Barnes
- The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- In Darkness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- earthfast.html
- Владимир Британишский – Девятое января
- Life by Walter William Safar
- Insensibility by Wilfred Owen
- Вера Павлова – Вопрос ребра
- Taking Leave of a Friend poem – Ezra Pound 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.