Coming
Philip Larkin * Track #28 On Collected Poems
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- #1“All catches alight”
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- #2“This was your place of birth, this daytime palace”
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- #3“The moon is full tonight”
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- #4Dawn
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- #5Conscript
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- #6“Kick up the fire, and let the flames break loose”
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- #7“The horns of the morning”
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- #8Winter
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- #9“Climbing the hill within the deafening wind”
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- #10“Within the dream you said”
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- #11“I put my mouth”
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- #12Wedding Wind
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- #13Places, Loved Ones
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- #14Coming
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- #15Dry-Point
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- #16Born Yesterday - (To Sally Amis)
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- #17Age
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- #18Spring
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- #19Deceptions
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- #20Absences
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- #21If, My Darling
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- #22Arrivals, Departures
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- #23Naturally the Foundation will Bear Your Expenses
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- #24Broadcast
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- #25Home is so Sad
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- #26Toads Revisited
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- #27Self’s The Man
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- #28As Bad as a Mile
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- #29Reference Back
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- #30Afternoons
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Coming by Philip Larkin
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The essence of this poem is a dedication to happiness the poet feels at spring time. It is a delightful, innocent offering from a poet regarded as dour and cynical, even curmudgeonly. The poem works through stages of perception of the natural world and memories of a dull childhood, to which he is re...
Coming Annotated
On longer evenings,
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
Foreheads of houses.
A thrush sings,
Laurel-surrounded
In the deep bare garden,
Its fresh-peeled voice
Astonishing the brickwork.
It will be spring soon,
It will be spring soon—
And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a scene
Of adult reconciling,
And can understand nothing
But the unusual laughter,
And starts to be happy.