The Blue Jay : D H Lawrence : : Bird Poems : :

The Blue Jay : : By D H Lawrence (1885 – 1930)The blue jay with a crest on his headComes round the cabin in the snow.He runs in the snow like a bit of blue metal,Turning his back on everything. From the pine-tree that towers and hisses like a pillar of shaggy cloudImmense above theContinue reading “The Blue Jay : D H Lawrence : : Bird Poems : :”

Grey Evening : DH Lawrence : : Evening Poems : :

Grey Evening : : By D H Lawrence ; : : : When you went, how was it you carried with youMy missal book of fine, flamboyant Hours?My book of turrets and of red-thorn bowers,And skies of gold, and ladies in bright tissue? Now underneath a blue-grey twilight, heapedBeyond the withering snow of the shornContinue reading “Grey Evening : DH Lawrence : : Evening Poems : :”

Last Lesson of the Afternoon : D H Lawrence : : Afternoon Poems : :

Last Lesson Of The Afternoon : : By D. H. Lawrence ( 1885–1930 ) : : : : : : : : : When will the bell ring, and end this weariness?How long have they tugged the leash, and strained apart,My pack of unruly hounds! I cannot startThem again on a quarry of knowledge theyContinue reading “Last Lesson of the Afternoon : D H Lawrence : : Afternoon Poems : :”

Discord In Childhood : D H Lawrence : : Childhood Poems : :

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930). Amores. 1916. 4. Discord in Childhood OUTSIDE the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips, 1And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree 2 Shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship’s 3Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously. 4 Within the house two voices arose in anger,Continue reading “Discord In Childhood : D H Lawrence : : Childhood Poems : :”

Autumn In Taos : D H Lawrence : : Aurumn Poems : :

Autumn In Taos By D H Lawrence : OVER the rounded sides of the Rockies, the aspens of autumn,The aspens of autumn,Like yellow hair of a tigress brindled with pins. Down on my hearth-rug of desert, sage of the mesa,An ash-grey peltOf wolf all hairy and level, a wolf’s wild pelt. Trot-trot to the mottledContinue reading “Autumn In Taos : D H Lawrence : : Aurumn Poems : :”

Autumn Rain : D H Lawrence : : Autumn Poems : :

Autumn Rain by DH Lawrence : : : : ( ) Autumn Rain The plane leavesfall black and weton the lawn; the cloud sheavesin heaven’s fields setdroop and are drawn in falling seeds of rain;the seed of heavenon my face falling — I hear againlike echoes eventhat softly pace heaven’s muffled floor,the winds that treadoutContinue reading “Autumn Rain : D H Lawrence : : Autumn Poems : :”

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