Love
Birdcage Walk
From New Poems (1918)
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When the wind blows her veil
And uncovers her laughter
I cease, I turn pale.
When the wind blows her veil
From the woes I bewail
Of love and hereafter:
When the wind blows her veil
I cease, I turn pale.
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Codex Note
Eight lines turning on the refrain 'When the wind blows her veil / I cease, I turn pale', set on a London street.
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Lawrence, D. H. “Birdcage Walk.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/24/.
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Lawrence, D. H. “Birdcage Walk.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/24/.
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