Description
Philip Larkin’s second collection, The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955, and now appears for the first time in Faber covers.
The eye can hardly pick them out
From the cold shade they shelter in,
Till wind distresses tail and mane;
Then one crops grass, and moves about
– The other seeming to look on –
And stands anonymous again.
from ‘At Grass’







A Quarter of an Hour
Swansea Automatic
The Silvering
Soemps
Slipping the Leash
Jinx
A Colomber in the House of Poesy
Poems
Gold from the Stone
Milk and Honey
Then Come Back
This Is Yarrow
Steep Tea
Somewhere Else Entirely
Words the Turtle Taught Me
How To Write Poems
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Over the Moon