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Born in 1922 / Died in 1985 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Philip Larkin

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Long Sight In Age

... Round the last shape of things ...

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Ignorance

... Their sense of shape, and punctual spread of seed, ...

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Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel

... Hours pass, And all the salesmen have gone back to Leeds, ...

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Cut Grass

... Lost lanes of Queen Anne's lace, ...

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Wires

... Whose muscle-shredding violence gives no quarter ...

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The Mower

... The first day after a death, the new absence ...

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The Building

... on the way Someone's wheeled past, in washed-to-rags ward clothes: ...

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Autobiography At An Air-Station

... With all the luggage weighed, the tickets checked, ...

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Letter To A Friend About Girls

... they begin Fetching your hat, so that you have to lie ...

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Aubade

... Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring ...

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Vers De Société

... the big wish Is to have people nice to you, which means ...

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To Put One Brick Upon Another

... But to sit with bricks around you ...

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High Windows

... No God any more, or sweating in the darkAbout hell and that, or having to hide ...

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This Be The Verse

... They fill you with the faults they had ...

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Annus Mirabilis

... Between the end of the Chatterley ban ...