Drunk (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
Too far away, oh love, I know, To save me from this haunted road, Whose lofty roses break and blow ...
Too far away, oh love, I know, To save me from this haunted road, Whose lofty roses break and blow ...
Always, sweetheart, Carry into your room the blossoming boughs of cherry, Almond and apple and pear diffuse with light, that ...
It is stormy, and raindrops cling like silver bees to the pane, The thin sycamores in the playground are swinging ...
As a drenched, drowned bee Hangs numb and heavy from a bending flower, So clings to me My baby, her ...
Since I lost you I am silence-haunted, Sounds wave their little wings A moment, then in weariness settle On the ...
At evening, sitting on this terrace, When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara Departs, ...
The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over The edge of the blue, and the ...
Look at them standing there in authority The pale-faces, As if it could have any effect any more. Pale-face authority, ...
At the open door of the room I stand and look at the night, Hold my hand to catch the ...
I have fetched the tears up out of the little wells, Scooped them up with small, iron words, Dripping over ...
I have opened the window to warm my hands on the sill Where the sunlight soaks in the stone: the ...
How many times, like lotus lilies risen Upon the surface of a river, there Have risen floating on my blood ...
My world is a painted fresco, where coloured shapes Of old, ineffectual lives linger blurred and warm; An endless tapestry ...
I wonder, can the night go by; Can this shot arrow of travel fly Shaft-golden with light, sheer into the ...
The sick grapes on the chair by the bed lie prone; at the window The tassel of the blind swings ...
The five old bells Are hurrying and eagerly calling, Imploring, protesting They know, but clamorously falling Into gabbling incoherence, never ...
Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. Bavarian gentians, big and dark, ...
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