Living

I Am Like a Rose

by D. H. Lawrence 1885–1930

From Look! We Have Come Through! (1917)

Living

I am myself at last; now I achieve
My very self. I, with the wonder mellow,
Full of fine warmth, I issue forth in clear
And single me, perfected from my fellow.

Here I am all myself. No rose-bush heaving
Its limpid sap to culmination, has brought
Itself more sheer and naked out of the green
In stark-clear roses, than I to myself am brought.

MLA

Lawrence, D. H. “I Am Like a Rose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/157/.

Chicago

Lawrence, D. H. “I Am Like a Rose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/157/.

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