For C.G.B.
When she came on, you couldn’t keep your seat;
Fighting your way up through the orchestra,
Tup-heavy bumpkin, you confused your feet,
Fell in the drum; how we went ha ha ha!
But once you gained her side and started waltzing
We all began to cheer; the way she leant
Her cheek on yours and laughed was so exalting
We thought you were stooging for the management.
But no. What you did, any of us might.
And saying so I see our difference:
Not your aplomb (I used mine to sit tight),
But fancying you improve her. Where’s the sense
In saying love, but meaning indifference ?
You’ll only change her. Still, I’m sure you’re right.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- The Travail Of Passion by William Butler Yeats
- Memory by William Browne
- Ribblesdale poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Bring Us The Light by John Oxenham
- Peace
- The Nympholept
- Meary-Ann’s Child by William Barnes
- Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor by Sylvia Plath
- A Kind of Life by Stanley Wilkin
- Edmundi Trotii Epitaphium poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Дозор
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
- The Song Of The Jellicles by T. S. Eliot
- A Ballad of Footmen poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: The Rights Of Woman: An Occasional Address. Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night, November 26, 1792.
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.