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

Poems by Philip Larkin

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The Old Fools

... This is why they giveAn air of baffled absence, trying to be there ...

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Continuing To Live

... But to confess,On that green evening when our death begins, ...

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The School In August

... The hollow desks are lined with dust, ...

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Maturity

... Then I shall start to feel the backward pull ...

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Next, Please

... Refusing to make haste!Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks ...

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Ambulances

... As it is carried in and stowed,And sense the solving emptiness ...

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The Explosion

... We shall see them face to face--plain as lettering in the chapels ...

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When First We Faced, And Touching Showed

... When first we faced, and touching showed ...

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Toads Revisited

... Hare-eyed clerks with the jitters,Waxed-fleshed out-patients ...

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Lines On A Young Lady's Photograph Album

... Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards,But shows a cat as disinclined, and shades ...

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Love Songs In Age

... She found them, looking for something else, and stood Relearning how each frank submissive chord ...

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Best Society

... It's clear you're not the virtuous sort ...

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Water

... A furious devout drench,And I should raise in the east ...

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At Grass

... To inlay faded, classic Junes -Silks at the start: against the sky ...

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Mother, Summer, I

... Her worried summer look is lost, And I her son, though summer-born ...