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
- Владимир Маяковский – Разве у вас не чешутся обе лопатки
- At Grass by Philip Larkin
- At Her Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Slow Pacific Swell by Yvor Winters
- Darest Thou Now, O Soul. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, шахтер!.. (РОСТА №843)
- Unstitching by Satish Verma
- The Drowned Man poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A Pastoral Upon The Birth of Prince Charles: Presented to the King, and Set by Mr Nic. Laniere by Robert Herrick
- Blemishes by Satish Verma
- A Tale of Elsinore by William Topaz McGonagall
- To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country by William Wordsworth
- the_christening.html
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
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.