Philip Larkin

1922-1985 / Male / English
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First SightLambs that learn to walk in snow / When their bleating clouds the air / Meet a vast unwelcome, know
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Essential BeautyIn frames as large as rooms that face all ways / And block the ends of streets with giant loaves, / Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
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An Arundel TombSide by side, their faces blurred, / The earl and countess lie in stone, / Their proper habits vaguely shown
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Cut GrassCut grass lies frail: / Brief is the breath / Mown stalks exhale.
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Continuing To LiveContinuing to live - that is, repeat / A habit formed to get necessaries - / Is nearly always losing, or going without.
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Best SocietyWhen I was a child, I thought, / Casually, that solitude / Never needed to be sought.
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At GrassThe eye can hardly pick them out / From the cold shade they shelter in, / Till wind distresses tail and main;
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Church GoingOnce I am sure there's nothing going on / I step inside, letting the door thud shut. / Another church: matting, seats, and stone,
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Deceptions'Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain / consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified to / discover that I had been ruined, and for some days I was inconsolable,
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Friday Night At The Royal Station HotelLight spreads darkly downwards from the high / Clusters of lights over empty chairs / That face each other, coloured differently.
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