D.H. Lawrence
1885-1930 / Male / English
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Self-pity
I never saw a wild thing / sorry for itself. / A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
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Dreams
All people dream, but not equally. / Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, / Wake in the morning to find that it was vanity.
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Tortoise Shell
The Cross, the Cross / Goes deeper in than we know, / Deeper into life;
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Whales Weep Not!
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains / the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. / All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge
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The White Horse
The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on / and the horse looks at him in silence. / They are so silent, they are in another world.
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Piano
Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; / Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see / A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings
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The Piano (Notebook Version)
Somewhere beneath that piano's superb sleek black / Must hide my mother's piano, little and brown with the back / That stood close to the wall, and the front's faded silk, both torn
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Butterfly
Butterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, / strong beyond the garden-wall! / Butterfly, why do you settle on my
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Snake
A snake came to my water-trough / On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, / To drink there.
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Sorrow
Why does the thin grey strand / Floating up from the forgotten / Cigarette between my fingers,
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