That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
Like New Orleans reflected on the water,
And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes,
Building for some a legendary Quarter
Of balconies, flower-baskets and quadrilles,
Everyone making love and going shares–
Oh, play that thing! Mute glorious Storyvilles
Others may license, grouping around their chairs
Sporting-house girls like circus tigers (priced
Far above rubies) to pretend their fads,
While scholars manqués nod around unnoticed
Wrapped up in personnels like old plaids.
On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City
Is where your speech alone is understood,
And greeted as the natural noise of good,
Scattering long-haired grief and scored pity.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- Grammar by Tony Hoagland
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Salut au Monde. by Walt Whitman
- The Treasure by Sara Teasdale
- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost
- The Mother Of God by William Butler Yeats
- I Found A Few Old Letters by Rabindranath Tagore
- Long For This World by Sophie Hannah
- Heavy Woman by Sylvia Plath
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- Sleep Did Come Wi’ The Dew by William Barnes
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.