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
- Robert Burns: How Cruel Are The Parents: Altered from an old English song. tune-“John Anderson, my jo.”
- Music poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: To Miss Ferrier: Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair.
- Ольга Седакова – Путешествие волхвов
- Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends by William Shakespeare
- The First Part: Sonnet 11 – Lamp of heaven’s crystal hall that brings the hours, by William Drummond
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос иных миров
- A Dream Pang by Robert Frost
- She got her wings by Mahak Raithatha S
- Nicholas Nye by Walter de la Mare
- Answer To A Sonnet By J.H.Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ночная смена
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ты холодна
- England! awake! awake! awake! by William Blake
- Cascade by Robert Desnos
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.