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
- What am I, After All? by Walt Whitman
- Primrose Rose by Rainbow Reed
- Robert Burns: Address To A Haggis:
- The Search by Pornika Ganguly
- Стихи о советском паспорте – Маяковский: стих “Я достаю из широких штанин” Владимира Маяковского – Poetry Monster
- Death In Exile by Satish Verma
- Give Me Back My Rags #11 by Vasko Popa
- Song—Sweet Afton by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- Sonnet Xiii
- An Extempore poem – John Keats poems
- Journey Of Life by Nikhil Srinivas
- Robert Burns: Extempore In The Court Of Session:
- Николай Глазков – Должны мы все свой пай нести
- A Lover poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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.