“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old wo...”
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Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's <i>Collected Poems</i> has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: <i>The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings</i> and <i>High Windows</i>. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other places, from his juvenilia to his final years - some of which might have appeared in a late book, if he had lived. Preserving everything that he published in his lifetime, this new <i>Collected Poems</i> returns the reader to the book Larkin might have intended: it is, for the first time, Larkin's 'own' collected poems.
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“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old wo...”
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“সবেধন পুত্র মোর, আমার চেয়েও বেশি ঈশ্বরের তুই থেকে যা এখানে এই নাশপাতি গাছের বাগানে। সুপ্রচুর ফলভারে এইখানে গাছেরা আনত তৃপ্ত আর পরিমিত রঙের বাহারে উদ্ভাসিত; বার্ধক্যপীড়িত হয়ে তারা যেই কাঁদে,...”
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“Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes — ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's gen...”
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“Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown— A poem sho...”
“Dirge Without Music I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind: Into the darkness they go,...”
“Time Does Not Bring Relief Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping of the rain; I want him at the shrinking of the...”
“I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelström of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me; And in small compass the dark waters cram. - I, While t...”
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