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The term "Naturally the Foundation will Bear your expenses by Philip Larkin" has been searched for 130 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on June 14th, 2005.
1. In 200 B.C. - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Published in 1931.
Read 656 times on Poetry Connection.
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--"
We can very well imagine
that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta
to this inscription. "Except the Lacedaemonians",
but naturally. The Spartans were not
to be led and ordered... (Read full poem)
2. Exiles - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Read 2338 times on Poetry Connection.
It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit
along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome
and you'll see palaces and monuments that will amaze you.
Whatever war-damage it's suffered,
however much smaller it's become,
it's still a... (Read full poem)
3. Elizabeth - written by Michael Ondaatje
Published in 1967.
Read 1657 times on Poetry Connection.
Catch, my Uncle Jack said
and oh I caught this huge apple
red as Mrs Kelly's bum.
It's red as Mrs Kelly's bum, I said
and Daddy roared
and swung me on his stomach with a heave.
Then I hid the apple in my room
till it shrunk like a face
growing eyes... (Read full poem)
4. Be Still, My Soul, Be Still - written by A.E. Housman
Read 1061 times on Poetry Connection.
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.
Think rather,-- call to thought, if now you grieve a little,
The days when we had rest, O soul, for they were long.
Men... (Read full poem)
5. To Failure - written by Philip Larkin
Read 6005 times on Poetry Connection.
You do not come dramatically, with dragons
That rear up with my life between their paws
And dash me butchered down beside the wagons,
The horses panicking; nor as a clause
Clearly set out to warn what can be lost,
What out-of-pocket charges must be... (Read full poem)
6. Morning Sea - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
From Collected Poems, Revised Edition.
Published in 1992.
Read 873 times on Poetry Connection.
Let me stop here. Let me, too, look at nature awhile.
The brilliant blue of the morning sea, of the cloudless sky,
the yellow shore; all lovely,
all bathed in light.
Let me stand here. And let me pretend I see all this
(I really did see it for a... (Read full poem)
7. How can you bear to look at the Neva? - written by Anna Akhmatova
Read 765 times on Poetry Connection.
How can you bear to look at the Neva?
How can you bear to cross the bridges?.
Not in vain am I known as the grieving one
Since the time you appeared to me.
The black angels' wings are sharp,
Judgment Day is coming soon,
And... (Read full poem)
8. Very Seldom - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Read 661 times on Poetry Connection.
He's an old man. Used up and bent,
crippled by time and indulgence,
he slowly walks along the narrow street.
But when he goes inside his house to hide
the shambles of his old age, his mind turns
to the share in youth that still belongs to him.
His... (Read full poem)
9. 153. Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1787.
Read 715 times on Poetry Connection.
NO 1 sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay,
“No storied urn nor animated bust;”
This simple stone directs pale Scotia’s way,
To pour her sorrows o’er the Poet’s dust.
ADDITIONAL STANZASShe mourns, sweet tuneful... (Read full poem)
10. THE INSTRUCTORS. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 401 times on Poetry Connection.
WHEN Diogenes quietly sunn'd himself in his barrel,
When Calanus with joy leapt in the flame-breathing grave,
Oh, what noble lessons were those for the rash son of Philip,
Were not the lord of the world e'en for instruction too... (Read full poem)
11. The Christian - written by William Cowper
Read 1099 times on Poetry Connection.
Honor and happiness unite
To make the Christian's name a praise;
How fair the scene, how clear the light,
That fills the remnant of His days!
A kingly character He bears,
No change His priestly office knows;
Unfading is the crown He... (Read full poem)
12. The Grizzly Bear - written by A.E. Housman
Read 1042 times on Poetry Connection.
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild
It has devoured the little child.
The little child is unaware
It has been eaten by the bear. (Read full poem)
13. Pictured - written by Constantine P. Cavafy
Read 788 times on Poetry Connection.
My work, I'm very careful about it, and I love it.
But today I'm discouraged by how slowly it's going.
The day has affected my mood.
It gets darker and darker. Endless wind and rain.
I'm more in the mood for looking than for writing.
In this... (Read full poem)
14. 462. Song—The Bannocks o’ Bear Meal - written by Robert Burns
From Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14..
Published in 1794.
Read 584 times on Poetry Connection.
Chorus—Bannocks o’ bear meal,
Bannocks o’ barley,
Here’s to the Highlandman’s
Bannocks o’ barley!
WHA, in a brulyie, will
First cry a parley?
Never the lads wi’ the
Bannocks o’ barley,... (Read full poem)
15. TO THE GENIUS OF HIS HOUSE - written by Robert Herrick
Read 335 times on Poetry Connection.
Command the roof, great Genius, and from thence
Into this house pour down thy influence,
That through each room a golden pipe may run
Of living water by thy benizon;
Fulfil the larders, and with strength'ning bread
Be ever-more these bins... (Read full poem)
16. Teddy Bear - written by Robert William Service
From Ballads of a Bohemian (Book 3).
Read 1030 times on Poetry Connection.
O Teddy Bear! with your head awry
And your comical twisted smile,
You rub your eyes -- do you wonder why
You've slept such a long, long while?
As you lay so still in the cupboard dim,
And you heard on the roof the rain,
Were you thinking . . . what... (Read full poem)
17. Punctuality - written by Lewis Carroll
Read 2027 times on Poetry Connection.
Man Naturally loves delay,
And to procrastinate;
Business put off from day to day
Is always done to late.
Let ever hour be in its place
Firm fixed, nor loosely shift,
And well enjoy the vacant space,
As though a birthday gift.
And when... (Read full poem)
18. A Mountain Station - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 583 times on Poetry Connection.
I bought a run a while ago,
On country rough and ridgy,
Where wallaroos and wombats grow --
The Upper Murrumbidgee.
The grass is rather scant, it's true,
But this a fair exchange is,
The sheep can see a lovely view
By climbing up the... (Read full poem)
19. Questions From A Worker Who Reads - written by Bertolt Brecht
Published in 1935.
Read 1546 times on Poetry Connection.
Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders... (Read full poem)
20. Psalm 87 - written by John Milton
From The Poetical Works of John Milton.
Published in 1648.
Read 496 times on Poetry Connection.
Among the holy Mountains high
Is his foundation fast,
There Seated in his Sanctuary,
His Temple there is plac't.
Sions fair Gates the Lord loves more
Then all the dwellings faire
Of Jacobs Land, though there be store,
And all within his care.
City... (Read full poem)
21. My Bear - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 502 times on Poetry Connection.
I never killed a bear because
I always thought them critters was
So kindo' cute;
Though round my shack they often came,
I'd raise my rifle and take aim,
But couldn't shoot.
Yet there was one... (Read full poem)
22. Teddy Bear - written by A.A. Milne
Read 3070 times on Poetry Connection.
A bear, however hard he tries,
Grows tubby without exercise.
Our Teddy Bear is short and fat,
Which is not to be wondered at;
He gets what exercise he can
By falling off the ottoman,
But generally seems to lack
The energy to clamber... (Read full poem)
23. The Old - written by Robert William Service
From Rhymes of a Roughneck.
Read 515 times on Poetry Connection.
Oh bear with me, for I am old
And count on fingers five
The years this pencil I may hold
And hope to be alive;
How sadly soon our dreaming ends!
How brief the sunset glow!
Be kindly to the old, my friends:
You'll miss them when they go.
I've seen... (Read full poem)
24. Life - written by Charlotte Bronte
Read 1568 times on Poetry Connection.
LIFE, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall ?... (Read full poem)
25. Who shall deliver me? - written by Christina Rossetti
Read 857 times on Poetry Connection.
God strengthen me to bear myself;
That heaviest weight of all to bear,
Inalienable weight of care.
All others are outside myself;
I lock my door and bar them out
The turmoil, tedium, gad-about.
I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them... (Read full poem)
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