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 (47 Poems)
Hibiscus And Salvia Flowers (D H Lawrence Poems)
_Hark! Hark!The dogs do bark!It's the socialists come to town,None in rags and none in tags,Swaggering up and down_.Sunday morning,And ...
Man And Bat (D H Lawrence Poems)
WHEN I went into my room, at mid-morning,Say ten o'clock . . .My room, a crash-box over that great stone ...
He-Goat (D H Lawrence Poems)
SEE his black nose snubbed back, pressed over like a whale's blow-holes,As if his nostrils were going to curve ...
Fish (D H Lawrence Poems)
FISH, oh Fish,So little matters!Whether the waters rise and cover the earthOr whether the waters wilt in the hollow places,All ...
Turkey-Cock (D H Lawrence Poems)
YOU ruffled black blossom,You glossy dark wind.Your sort of gorgeousness,Dark and lustrousAnd skinny repulsiveAnd poppy-glossy,Is the gorgeousness that evokes my ...
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 ...
She-Goat (D H Lawrence Poems)
GOATS go past the back of the house like dry leaves in the dawn,And up the hill like a ...
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 ...
The Ass (D H Lawrence Poems)
THE long-drawn bray of the assIn the Sicilian twilight--_All mares are dead!All mares are dead!Oh-h!Oh-h-h!Oh-h-h-h-h--h!!I can't bear it, I can't ...
The Red Wolf (D H Lawrence Poems)
OVER the heart of the west, the Taos desertCircles an eagle,And it's dark between me and him.The sun, as he ...
Spirits Summoned West (D H Lawrence Poems)
ENGLAND seems full of graves to me,Full of graves.Women I loved and cherished, like my mother;Yet I had to tell ...
Grapes (D H Lawrence Poems)
SO many fruits come from rosesFrom the rose of all rosesFrom the unfolded roseRose of all the world.Admit that apples ...
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 ...
Cypresses (D H Lawrence Poems)
TUSCAN cypresses,What is it?Folded in like a dark thoughtFor which the language is lost,Tuscan cypresses,Is there a great secret?Are our ...
The Mosquito (D H Lawrence Poems)
WHEN did you start your tricksMonsieur?What do you stand on such high legs for?Why this length of shredded shankYou exaltation?Is ...
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 ...
St. Luke (D H Lawrence Poems)
A WALL, a bastion,A living forehead with its slow whorl of hairAnd a bull's large, sombre, glancing eyeAnd glistening, adhesive ...
Kangaroo (D H Lawrence Poems)
Delicate mother Kangaroo Sitting up there rabbit-wise, but huge, plump-weighted, And lifting her beautiful slender face, oh! so much more ...
The American eagle (D H Lawrence Poems)
THE dove of Liberty sat on an eggAnd hatched another eagle.But didn't disown the bird._Down with all eagles_! cooed the ...
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 ...
Medlars And Sorb-Apples (D H Lawrence Poems)
I LOVE you, rotten,Delicious rottenness.I love to suck you out from your skinsSo brown and soft and coming suave,So morbid, ...
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 ...
Mountain Lion (D H Lawrence Poems)
CLIMBING through the January snow, into the Lobo canyonDark grow the spruce-trees, blue is the balsam, water sounds still unfrozen, ...
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 ...
Men In New Mexico (D H Lawrence Poems)
MOUNTAINS blanket-wrappedRound a white hearth of desert--While the sun goes roundAnd round and round the desert,The mountains never get up ...