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Can even death dry up These new delighted lakes, conclude Our kneeling as cattle by all-generous waters?
By Philip Larkin
At death, you break up: the bits that were you Start speeding away from each other for ever With no one to see.
By Philip Larkin
And yet spend all our life on imprecisions, That when we start to die Have no idea why.
By Philip Larkin
And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
By Philip Larkin
And the waves sing because they are moving. And the waves sing above a cemetery of waters.
By Philip Larkin
All that's left to happen Is some deaths (my own included). Their order, and their manner, Remain to be learnt.
By Philip Larkin
... a unique endeavour To bring to bloom the million-petalled flower Of being here.
By Philip Larkin
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?
By 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....
By Philip Larkin
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.
By Philip Larkin
For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devil's tunes Shivering home to pray; I take you now and for always, For always is always now.
By Philip Larkin
Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
By Philip Larkin