LARKIN, PHILIP PLACES, LOVED ONES No, I have never found
The place where I could say
This is my proper ground,
Here I shall stay; Nor met that special one
Who has an instant claim
On everything I own
Down to my name; To find such seems to prove
You want no choice in where
To build, or whom to love;
You ask them to bear
You off irrevocably,
So that it's not your fault
Should the town turn dreary,
The girl a dolt. Yet, having missed them, you're
Bound, none the less, to act
As if what you settled for
Mashed you, in fact;
And wiser to keep away
From thinking you still might trace
Uncalled-for to this day
Your person, your place. in The Less Deceived (1955) WATER If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water. Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes; My liturgy would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench, And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly. in The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
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LARKIN, PHILIP PLACES, LOVED ONES No, I have never found
The place where I could say
This is my proper ground,
Here I shall stay; Nor met that special one
Who has an instant claim
On everything I own
Down to my name; To find such seems to prove
You want no choice in where
To build, or whom to love;
You ask them to bear
You off irrevocably,
So that it's not your fault
Should the town turn dreary,
The girl a dolt. Yet, having missed them, you're
Bound, none the less, to act
As if what you settled for
Mashed you, in fact;
And wiser to keep away
From thinking you still might trace
Uncalled-for to this day
Your person, your place. in The Less Deceived (1955) WATER If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water. Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes; My liturgy would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench, And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly. in The Whitsun Weddings (1964)