Cut Grass

Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin

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Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the deathIt dies in the white hours
Of young-leafed June
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne's lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer's pace.
Philip Larkin
About the poet

Philip Larkin

1922 - 1985/Male/EnglishA poet, novelist and librarian who wrote about emotions, places, and relationships. (wikipedia)

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