Nature
Transformations: The Earth
From Love Poems and Others (1913)
Nature
Oh Earth, you spinning clod of earth,
And then you lamp, you lemon-coloured beauty;
Oh Earth, you rotten apple rolling downward,
Then brilliant Earth, from the burr of night in beauty
As a jewel-brown horse-chestnut newly issued:--
You are all these, and strange, it is my duty
To take you all, sordid or radiant tissued.
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Lawrence, D. H. “Transformations: The Earth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/73/.
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Lawrence, D. H. “Transformations: The Earth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/73/.
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