Love
The Appeal
From Love Poems and Others (1913)
Love
You, Helen, who see the stars
As mistletoe berries burning in a black tree,
You surely, seeing I am a bowl of kisses,
Should put your mouth to mine and drink of me.
Helen, you let my kisses steam
Wasteful into the night's black nostrils; drink
Me up I pray; oh you who are Night's Bacchante,
How can you from my bowl of kisses shrink!
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Codex Note
The speaker tells Helen, who sees the stars 'as mistletoe berries burning in a black tree', that he is 'a bowl of kisses' and that she should drink of him.
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Lawrence, D. H. “The Appeal.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/8/.
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Lawrence, D. H. “The Appeal.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lawrence/8/.
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