School Poems: The School In August by Philip Larkin

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 5:22 pm on Jul 24, 1979

The cloakroom pegs are empty now, And locked the classroom door, The hollow desks are lined with dust, And slow across the floor A sunbeam creeps between the chairs Till the sun shines no more. Who did their hair before this glass? Who scratched ‘Elaine loves Jill’ One drowsy summer sewing-class With scissors on the [...]


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