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
- Parting Words by Rabindranath Tagore
- WALKING INTO YOU by Satish Verma
- Winter Apples by Tatiana Gusarova, translated by Fledermaus
- Where Are You?
- Robert Burns: Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.: Written with a Pencil on the Spot.
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Валерий Брюсов – Есть поразительная белость
- The Effect by Siegfried Sassoon
- Федор Сологуб – Я иду от дома к дому
- Маяковский – Послушайте: Стих Владимира Маяковского – Читать текст стихотворения на Poetry Monster
- Away With Funeral Music by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грусть моя, тоска моя
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- Song—A Bottle and Friend by Robert Burns
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
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.