The Mind

Nonentity

by D. H. Lawrence 1885–1930

From Look! We Have Come Through! (1917)

The Mind

The stars that open and shut
Fall on my shallow breast
Like stars on a pool.

The soft wind, blowing cool
Laps little crest after crest
Of ripples across my breast.

And dark grass under my feet
Seems to dabble in me
Like grass in a brook.

Oh, and it is sweet
To be all these things, not to be
Any more myself.

For look,
I am weary of myself!

MLA

Lawrence, D. H. “Nonentity.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/143/.

Chicago

Lawrence, D. H. “Nonentity.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/143/.

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