Love
Gipsy
From New Poems (1918)
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I, the man with the red scarf,
Will give thee what I have, this last week's earnings.
Take them, and buy thee a silver ring
And wed me, to ease my yearnings.
For the rest, when thou art wedded
I'll wet my brow for thee
With sweat, I'll enter a house for thy sake,
Thou shalt shut doors on me.
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Codex Note
A dialect-tinged speech by a man with a red scarf, who offers a woman his week's earnings for a silver ring and asks her to wed him, though she will 'shut doors on me'.
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Lawrence, D. H. “Gipsy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/16/.
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Lawrence, D. H. “Gipsy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/16/.
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