Elephant (D H Lawrence Poems)
YOU go down shade to the river, where naked men sit on flat brown rocks, to watch the ferry, in ...
D H Lawrence Poems on Heaven (15 Poems)
Almond Blossom (D H Lawrence Poems)
EVEN iron can put forth,Even iron.This is the iron age,But let us take heartSeeing iron break and bud,Seeing rusty iron ...
St. Matthew (D H Lawrence Poems)
THEY are not all beasts.One is a man, for example, and one is a bird.I, Matthew, am a man."And I, ...
The Evening Land (D H Lawrence Poems)
OH AmericaThe sun sets in you.Are you the grave of our day?Shall I come to you, the open tomb of ...
Figs (D H Lawrence Poems)
THE proper way to eat a fig, in society,Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,And open ...
St. Mark (D H Lawrence Poems)
THERE was a lion in JudahWhich whelped, and was Mark.But winged.A lion with wings.At least at Venice.Even as late as ...
St. John (D H Lawrence Poems)
JOHN, oh John,Thou honourable birdSun-peering eagle.Taking a bird's-eye viewEven of Calvary and ResurrectionNot to speak of Babylon's whoredom.High over the ...
Bare Fig-Trees (D H Lawrence Poems)
FIG-TREES, weird fig-treesMade of thick smooth silver,Made of sweet, untarnished silver in the sea-southern air--I say untarnished, but I mean ...
Eagle In New Mexico (D H Lawrence Poems)
TOWARDS the sun, towards the south-westA scorched breast.A scorched breast, breasting the sun like an answer,Like a retort.An eagle at ...
Purple Anemones (D H Lawrence Poems)
_WHO gave us flowers?Heaven? The white God_?Nonsense!Up out of hell,From Hades;Infernal Dis!_Jesus the god of flowers_------?Not he._Or sun-bright Apollo, him ...
Sicilian Cyclamens (D H Lawrence Poems)
WHEN he pushed his bush of black hair off his brow:When she lifted her mop from her eyes, and screwed ...
Seven Seals (D H Lawrence Poems)
Since this is the last night I keep you home,Come, I will consecrate you for the journey.Rather I had you ...
Peach (D H Lawrence Poems)
WOULD you like to throw a stone at me?Here, take all that's left of my peach.Blood-red, deep;Heaven knows how it ...
On The Balcony (D H Lawrence Poems)
In front of the sombre mountains, a faint, lost ribbon of rainbow; And between us and it, the thunder; And ...
Illicit (D H Lawrence Poems)
IN front of the sombre mountains, a faint, lost ribbon of rainbow, And between us and it, the thunder; And ...