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Philip Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 / West Midlands / England)
Poems of Philip Larkin
If you see a poem only with title, it is listed that way because of copyright reasons.
| 1. | A Study Of Reading Habits | 4/2/2010 |
| 2. | Ambulances | 4/2/2010 |
| 3. | An Arundel Tomb | 4/2/2010 |
| 4. | Annus Mirabilis | 4/2/2010 |
| 5. | Arrival | 4/2/2010 |
| 6. | At Grass | 4/2/2010 |
| 7. | Aubade | 4/2/2010 |
| 8. | Autobiography At An Air-Station | 4/2/2010 |
| 9. | Best Society | 4/2/2010 |
| 10. | Church Going | 4/2/2010 |
| 11. | Continuing To Live | 4/2/2010 |
| 12. | Cut Grass | 4/2/2010 |
| 13. | Days | 4/2/2010 |
| 14. | Deceptions | 4/2/2010 |
| 15. | Dockery And Son | 4/2/2010 |
| 16. | Dublinesque | 4/2/2010 |
| 17. | Essential Beauty | 4/2/2010 |
| 18. | Faith Healing | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | Far Out | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | First Sight | 4/2/2010 |
Home is So Sad
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:
