Down stucco sidestreets,
Where light is pewter
And afternoon mist
Brings lights on in shops
Above race-guides and rosaries,
A funeral passes.
The hearse is ahead,
But after there follows
A troop of streetwalkers
In wide flowered hats,
Leg-of-mutton sleeves,
And ankle-length dresses.
There is an air of great friendliness,
As if they were honouring
One they were fond of;
Some caper a few steps,
Skirts held skilfully
(Someone claps time),
And of great sadness also.
As they wend away
A voice is heard singing
Of Kitty, or Katy,
As if the name meant once
All love, all beauty.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Олег Григорьев – Конфеты
- Владимир Вишневский – Звучит воинственно: “носки”
- On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Night Thought by William Wordsworth
- The Rose of Midnight by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind by William Shakespeare
- Николай Языков – Дума (Одну минуту, много две)
- Middle-Ages by Siegfried Sassoon
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- Владимир Степанов – Рассказ оружейника
- Николай Тихонов – Когда уйду
- Robert Burns: Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear: Paraphrase of Jeremiah, 15th Chap., 10th verse
- Оливер Голдсмит – Песенка
- Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought by William Shakespeare
- This Lunar Beauty by W H Auden
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.