They say eyes clear with age. – Philip Larkin
Since the majority of me
Rejects the majority of you,
Debating ends forthwith, and we
Divide. – Philip Larkin
They say eyes clear with age. – Philip Larkin
Since the majority of me
Rejects the majority of you,
Debating ends forthwith, and we
Divide. – Philip Larkin
My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there…. – Philip Larkin
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne