Poems by D. H. Lawrence

I HAVE fetched the tears up out of the little wells,
Scooped them up with small, iron words,
...

AH, my darling, when over the purple horizon shall loom
The shrouded mother of a new idea, me...

Street-Walkers. WHEN into the night the yellow light is roused like dust above the towns,
Or l...

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;
Taking me back down the vista of years, till ...

It is Isis the mystery
Must be in love with me. Here this round ball of earth
Where all...

I WONDER, can the night go by;
Can this shot arrow of travel fly
Shaft-golden with light, sh...

PATIENCE, little Heart.
One day a heavy, June-hot woman
Will enter and shut the door to stay....

THIS spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-...

IF I could have put you in my heart,
If but I could have wrapped you in myself,
How glad I sh...

Charity. BY the river
In the black wet night as the furtive rain slinks down,
Dropping and st...

SINCE I lost you, my darling, the sky has come near,
And I am of it, the small sharp stars a...

Too far away, oh love, I know,
To save me from this haunted road,
Whose lofty roses break a...

OLD I HAVE opened the window to warm my hands on the sill
Where the sunlight soaks in the stone...

YOU promised to send me some violets. Did you forget?
White ones and blue ones from under the or...

THE acrid scents of autumn,
Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
Everything, tear-tr...