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BUILDING by PHILIP LARKIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: HIGHER THAN THE HANDSOMEST HOTEL
Last Line: THE COMING DARK, THOUGH CROWDS EACH EVENING TRY %WITH WASTEFUL, WEAK, PROPITIATORY FLOWERS

Poem Sources:

COLLECTED POEMS. ANTHONY THWAITE (ED.)
  LARKIN, PHILIP
  (1989)
 



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