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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Ambulances by Philip Larkin Closed like confessionals, they thread Loud noons of cities, giving back None of the glances they absorb. Light glossy grey, arms on a plaque, They come to rest at any kerb: All streets in time are visited. Then children strewn on steps or road, Or women coming from the shops Past smells of different dinners, see A wild white face that overtops Red stretcher-blankets momently As it is carried in and stowed, And sense the solving emptiness That lies just under all we do, And for a second get it whole, So permanent and blank and true. The fastened doors recede. Poor soul, They whisper at their own distress; For borne away in deadened air May go the sudden shut of loss Round something nearly at an end, And what cohered in it across The years, the unique random blend Of families and fashions, there At last begin to loosen. Far From the exchange of love to lie Unreachable insided a room The trafic parts to let go by Brings closer what is left to come, And dulls to distance all we are. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Philip Larkin Ambulances Annus Mirabilis An Arundel Tomb Arrival At Grass Aubade Autobiography At An Air-Station A Study Of Reading Habits Best Society Breadfruit Church Going Continuing To Live Counting Cut Grass Days Deceptions Dockery And Son Dublinesque Essential Beauty Faith Healing Far Out First Sight For Sidney Bechet Friday Night At The Royal Station Ho Going Grief He Hears That His Beloved Has Become High Windows Homage To A Government Home Is So Sad How Distant If Hands Could Free You Heart Ignorance Is It For Now Or For Always I Have Started To Say I Remember I Remember Like The Trains Beat Lines On A Young Ladys Photograph Al Long Sight In Age Love Again Love Songs In Age Love We Must Part Now Maiden Name Maturity MCMXIV Modesties Money Mother Summer I Mr Bleaney Myxomatosis New Eyes Each Year Next Please Night-Music Nothing To Be Said No Road Poetry Of Departures Reasons For Attendance Sad Steps Send No Money Since The Majority Of Me Skin Solar Story Sunny Prestatyn Take One Home For The Kiddies Talking In Bed The Building The Explosion The Importance Of Elsewhere The Little Lives Of Earth And Form The Mower The North Ship The Old Fools The School In August The Spirit Wooed The Trees The Whitsun Weddings This Be The Verse This Is The First Thing Toads Toads Revisited To Failure To My Wife To Put One Brick Upon Another Traumlumerei Triple Time Vers De Socieacuteteacute Wants Water Wedding Wind Whatever Happened When First We Faced And Touching Sho Why Did I Dream Of You Last Night Wild Oats Wires

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Paul Celan	Paul Muldoon	Philip Freneau
Philip Larkin	Philip Levine	Phillis Wheatley
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