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
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Осенняя песня
- In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 12
- Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
- The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant
- Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith
- One Word
- Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Life
- A Valentine’s Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Garden and Gardener. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Robert Burns: O Let Me In Thes Ae Night:
- Олег Бундур – Колыбельная для мамы
- Bringen Woone Gwaïn O’ Zundays by William Barnes
- Book Eighth: Retrospect–Love Of Nature Leading To Love Of Man by William Wordsworth
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.