Recent Posts Tagged With 'poetry'

• Money

  Posted on Saturday December 5th, 2009 at 15:01 in poetry, philip larkin

  Money Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me: 'Why do you let me lie here wastefully? I am all you never had of goods and sex, You could get them still by writing a few cheques.' So I look at others, what they do with theirs: They certain...

• Ignorance

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 14:42 in poetry, philip larkin

  IgnoranceStrange to know nothing, never to be sureOf what is true or right or real,But forced to qualify or so I feel,Or Well, it does seem so:Someone must know.Strange to be ignorant of the way things work:Their skill at finding what they need,Their...

• Remorse For Intemperate Speech

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 15:18 in poetry, w b yeats

  Remorse For Intemperate SpeechI ranted to the knave and fool,But outgrew that school,Would transform the part,Fit audience found, but cannot ruleMy fanatic heart.I sought my betters: though in eachFine manners, liberal speech,Turn hatred into sport,N...