D.H. Lawrence

1885-1930 / Male / English

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A Baby Running BarefootWhen the bare feet of the baby beat across the grass / The little white feet nod like white flowers in the wind, / They poise and run like ripples lapping across the water;

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A Love SongReject me not if I should say to you / I do forget the sounding of your voice, / I do forget your eyes that searching through

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A Spiritual WomanClose your eyes, my love, let me make you blind; / They have taught you to see / Only a mean arithmetic on the face of things,

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A Winter's TaleYesterday the fields were only grey with scattered snow, / And now the longest grass-leaves hardly emerge; / Yet her deep footsteps mark the snow, and go

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BatAt evening, sitting on this terrace, / When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara / Departs, and the world is taken by surprise ...

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Beautiful Old AgeIt ought to be lovely to be old / to be full of the peace that comes of experience / and wrinkled ripe fulfilment.

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ButterflyButterfly, the wind blows sea-ward, / strong beyond the garden-wall! / Butterfly, why do you settle on my

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Cruelty and LoveWhat large, dark hands are those at the window / Lifted, grasping in the yellow light / Which makes its way through the curtain web

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DreamsAll 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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DrunkToo far away, oh love, I know, / To save me from this haunted road, / Whose lofty roses break and blow

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