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
- The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow poem – Andrew Lang poems
- In Me, Past, Present, Future meet by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
- Олег Сердобольский – Зимний кот
- The Swarm by Sylvia Plath
- Hendecasyllabics poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Lo! Victress on the Peaks. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet 23: As an unperfect actor on the stage by William Shakespeare
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress by John Cleveland
- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
- Of the Visage of Things. by Walt Whitman
- Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
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.