Philip Larkin's Poetry, by popularity

• Waiting For Breakfast, While She Brushed Her Hair

  Waiting for breakfast, while she brushed her hair,
  I looked down at the empty hotel yard

  28 lines
• Letter To A Friend About Girls

  After comparing lives with you for years
  I see how I’ve been losing: all the while

  48 lines
• On Being Twenty-six

  I feared these present years,
        The middle twenties,

  69 lines
• Träumerei

  In this dream that dogs me I am part
  Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,

  22 lines
• The Little Lives Of Earth And Form

  The little lives of earth and form,
  Of finding food, and keeping warm,

  12 lines
• Träumerei

  In this dream that dogs me I am part
  Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,

  22 lines
• When First We Faced, And Touching Showed

  When first we faced, and touching showed
  How well we knew the early moves,

  18 lines
• Long Sight In Age

  They say eyes clear with age,
  As dew clarifies air

  12 lines
• New Eyes Each Year

  New eyes each year
  Find old books here,

  8 lines
• Mother, Summer, I

  My mother, who hates thunder storms,
  Holds up each summer day and shakes

  16 lines
• Maturity

  A stationary sense... as, I suppose,
  I shall have, till my single body grows

  12 lines
• The Mower

  The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
  A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,

  11 lines
• The Spirit Wooed

  Once I believed in you,
        And then you came,

  21 lines, 1 comment
• The School In August

  The cloakroom pegs are empty now,
  And locked the classroom door,

  19 lines
• Autobiography At An Air-Station

  Delay, well, travellers must expect
  Delay. For how long? No one seems to know.

  14 lines
• To My Wife

  Choice of you shuts up that peacock-fan
  The future was, in which temptingly spread

  15 lines
• Far Out

  Beyond the dark cartoons
  Are darker spaces where

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Story

  Tired of a landscape known too well when young:
  The deliberate shallow hills, the boring birds

  14 lines
• When First We Faced

  When first we faced, and touching showed
  How well we knew the early moves,

  18 lines
• Like The Train's Beat

  Like the train's beat
  Swift language flutters the lips

  18 lines
• Modesties

  Words as plain as hen-birds' wings
  Do not lie,

  12 lines
• To Put One Brick Upon Another

  To put one brick upon another,
  Add a third and then a forth,

  8 lines
• The Importance Of Elsewhere

  Lonely in Ireland, since it was not home,
  Strangeness made sense. The salt rebuff of speech,

  13 lines
• Triple Time

  This empty street, this sky to blandness scoured,
  This air, a little indistinct with autumn

  15 lines
• Money

  Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me:
  'Why do you let me lie here wastefully?

  19 lines
• I Have Started To Say

  I have started to say
  "A quarter of a century"

  13 lines
• He Hears That His Beloved Has Become Engaged

  For C.G.B.
  When she came on, you couldn't keep your seat;

  16 lines
• Best Society

  When I was a child, I thought,
  Casually, that solitude

  32 lines
• 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
• Is It For Now Or For Always

  Is it for now or for always,
  The world hangs on a stalk?

  12 lines

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