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New Eyes Each Year

by Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin

New eyes each year
Find old books here,
And new books,too,
Old eyes renew;
So youth and age
Like ink and page
In this house join,
Minting new coin.




Quotes of the Day

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
• H. G. Wells


Poems of the Day
  • Patience Worth
    The Silver Harp
    by Patience Worth
    My soul is a silver harp, Whose strings are as tenuous as moonbeams, Whose notes are iridescent, like rainbows Or prisms-glinting, live With souls that pulse with love. Oh it is an agony