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| Philip Larkin |
Philip Larkin was born in 1922 in Coventry, England. He attended St.
John's College, Oxford. His first book of poetry, The North Ship,
was published in 1945 and, though not particularly strong...
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| Home is so Sad
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by Philip Larkin |
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Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Instead, bereft
Of anyone to please, it withers so,
Having no heart to put aside the theft
And turn again to what it started as,
A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide. You can see how it was:
Look at the pictures and the cutlery.
The music in the piano stool. That vase. |
From Collected Poems by Philip Larkin. Copyright © 1988, 2003 by the Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All rights reserved. |
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