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Philip Larkin
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Philip Larkin
(9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 / West Midlands / England)

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41      Maiden Name
42      Maturity
43      MCMXIV
44      Modesties
45      Money
46      Mother, Summer, I
47      Mr Bleaney
48      Myxomatosis
49      New Eyes Each Year
50      Next Please
51      Night Music
52      No Road
53      Nothing to Be Said
54      On Being Twenty-six
55      Poetry of Departures
56      Reasons for Attendance
57      Sad Steps
58      Send No Money
59      Since the Majority of Me
60      Skin
        
 

 
 
 
  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:
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