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Philip Larkin's Poetry, by title

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  • A Study Of Reading Habits
    When getting my nose in a book
    Cured most things short of school,
    19 lines, 5 comments
  • Ambulances
    Closed like confessionals, they thread
    Loud noons of cities, giving back
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • An Arundel Tomb
    Side by side, their faces blurred,
    The earl and countess lie in stone,
    42 lines
  • Annus Mirabilis
    Sexual intercourse began
    In nineteen sixty-three
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Arrival
    Morning, a glass door, flashes
    Gold names off the new city,
    24 lines
  • At Grass
    The eye can hardly pick them out
    From the cold shade they shelter in,
    30 lines, 1 comment
  • Aubade
    I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
    Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
    50 lines, 2 comments
  • Autobiography At An Air-Station
    Delay, well, travellers must expect
    Delay. For how long? No one seems to know.
    14 lines
  • Best Society
    When I was a child, I thought,
    Casually, that solitude
    32 lines
  • Breadfruit
    Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit,
    Whatever they are,
    16 lines, 2 comments
  • Church Going
    Once I am sure there's nothing going on
    I step inside, letting the door thud shut.
    63 lines
  • Continuing To Live
    Continuing to live — that is, repeat
    A habit formed to get necessaries —
    23 lines
  • Cut Grass
    Cut grass lies frail:
    Brief is the breath
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • Days
    What are days for?
    Days are where we live.
    10 lines
  • Deceptions
    "Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain
    consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified to
    22 lines
  • Dockery And Son
    'Dockery was junior to you,
    Wasn't he?' said the Dean. 'His son's here now.'
    52 lines
  • Dublinesque
    Down stucco sidestreets,
    Where light is pewter
    24 lines
  • Essential Beauty
    In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
    And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
    32 lines
  • Faith Healing
    Slowly the women file to where he stands
    Upright in rimless glasses, silver hair,
    30 lines
  • Far Out
    Beyond the dark cartoons
    Are darker spaces where
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • First Sight
    Lambs that learn to walk in snow
    When their bleating clouds the air
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • For Sidney Bechet
    That note you hold, narrowing and rising, shakes
    Like New Orleans reflected on the water,
    17 lines
  • Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel
    Light spreads darkly downwards from the high
    Clusters of lights over empty chairs
    14 lines
  • Going
    There is an evening coming in
    Across the fields, one never seen before,
    10 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
  • High Windows
    When I see a couple of kids
    And guess he's ******* her and she's
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Homage To A Government
    Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
    For lack of money, and it is all right.
    18 lines, 1 comment
  • Home Is So Sad
    Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
    Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
    10 lines
  • How Distant
    How distant, the departure of young men
    Down valleys, or watching
    20 lines
  • I Have Started To Say
    I have started to say
    "A quarter of a century"
    13 lines
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