David Herbert Lawrence Poems

There are four men mowing down by the Isar;
I can hear the swish of the scythe-strokes, four
Sharp breaths taken: yea, and I
Am sorry for what's in store.
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I

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion.
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The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
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Search for nothing any more, nothing
except truth.
Be very still, and try and get at the truth.
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A yellow leaf from the darkness
Hops like a frog before me.
Why should I start and stand still?
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What large, dark hands are those at the window
Lifted, grasping in the yellow light
Which makes its way through the curtain web
At my heart to-night?
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Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me?
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Thought, I love thought.
But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas
I despise that self-important game.
Thought is the welling up of unknown life into consciousness,
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Don't you care for my love? she said bitterly.

I handed her the mirror, and said:
Please address these questions to the proper person!
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My little love, my darling,
You were a doorway to me;
You let me out of the confines
Into this strange countrie,
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