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Philip Larkin's Poetry, by first line

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  • To My Wife
    Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan
    The future was, in which temptingly spread
    15 lines
  • Cut Grass
    Cut grass lies frail:
    Brief is the breath
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Whitsun Weddings
    That Whitsun, I was late getting away:
    Not till about
    80 lines
  • An Arundel Tomb
    Side by side, their faces blurred,
    The earl and countess lie in stone,
    42 lines
  • Days
    What are days for?
    Days are where we live.
    10 lines
  • Church Going
    Once I am sure there's nothing going on
    I step inside, letting the door thud shut.
    63 lines
  • The Old Fools
    What do they think has happened, the old fools,
    To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose
    48 lines
  • Maiden Name
    Marrying left your maiden name disused.
    Its five light sounds no longer mean your face,
    21 lines
  • Aubade
    I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
    Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
    50 lines, 2 comments
  • Water
    If I were called in
    To construct a religion
    13 lines
  • The North Ship
    I saw three ships go sailing by,
    Over the sea, the lifting sea,
    24 lines
  • Going
    There is an evening coming in
    Across the fields, one never seen before,
    10 lines
  • At Grass
    The eye can hardly pick them out
    From the cold shade they shelter in,
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Talking In Bed
    Talking in bed ought to be easiest,
    Lying together there goes back so far,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Night Music
    At one the wind rose,
    And with it the noise
    25 lines
  • Library Ode
    New eyes each year
    Find old books here,
    8 lines
  • High Windows
    When I see a couple of kids
    And guess he's ******* her and she's
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • I Remember, I Remember
    Coming up England by a different line
    For once, early in the cold new year,
    36 lines
  • Toads
    Why should I let the toad work
    Squat on my life?
    36 lines
  • Mcmxiv
    Those long uneven lines
    Standing as patiently
    32 lines
  • To Failure
    You do not come dramatically, with dragons
    That rear up with my life between their paws
    14 lines
  • Sad Steps
    Groping back to bed after a piss
    I part the thick curtains, and am startled by
    18 lines
  • Love, We Must Part Now
    Love, we must part now: do not let it be
    Calamitious and bitter. In the past
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Dublinesque
    Down stucco sidestreets,
    Where light is pewter
    24 lines
  • Ambulances
    Closed like confessionals, they thread
    Loud noons of cities, giving back
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Wires
    The widest prairies have electric fences,
    For though old cattle know they must not stray
    8 lines
  • Wild Oats
    About twenty years ago
    Two girls came in where I worked -
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • Why Did I Dream of You Last Night?
    Why did I dream of you last night?
    Now morning is pushing back hair with grey light
    9 lines
  • When First We Faced
    When first we faced, and touching showed
    How well we knew the early moves,
    18 lines
  • Whatever Happened?
    At once whatever happened starts receding.
    Panting, and back on board, we line the rail
    14 lines
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