Larkin had a flair for limericks. He had a high regard for Barbara Pym's writing, but that didn't prevent him from composing these lines:
The chances are certainly slim
Of finding in Barbara Pym
(I speak with all deference)
The faintest of reference
To what in our youth we called quim —
from Philip Larkin, The Complete Poems ed. Archue Burnett
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012). A paperback version of this essential
volume has an official publication date of April 2.