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Brynmor James's avatar

"Tis not that I am weary grown

Of being yours, and yours alone,

But with what face can I incline

To damn you to be only mine?"

Here one is reminded of Larkin…

"The difficult part of love


Is being selfish enough,


Is having the blind persistence


To upset an existence


Just for your own sake.


What cheek it must take."

(Though of course the poems - both great - are very different.)

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Dominic Frisby's avatar

Yes indeed. I should read more Larkin

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