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D. H. Lawrence

1885–1930

David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English novelist, essayist and poet, born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, the son of a coal miner. He wrote Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and Women in Love, and also much poetry from his early lyrics of Nottinghamshire to the free-verse poems of his years abroad.

The poems here come from Love Poems and Others (1913), Look! We Have Come Through! (1917), New Poems (1918) and Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923), the last of which contains his best-known animal poems. He died in Vence, France, in 1930.

Poems (265)

  1. Cherry Robbers
  2. Kisses in the Train
  3. Wedding Morn
  4. Bei Hennef
  5. A Collier's Wife
  6. Aware
  7. A White Blossom
  8. A Pang of Reminiscence
  9. The Appeal
  10. Corot
  11. Lightning
  12. Reminder
  13. Piano
  14. Tarantella
  15. In Church
  16. Flapper
  17. Gipsy
  18. Love Storm
  19. Twenty Years Ago
  20. Narcissus
  21. Autumn Sunshine
  22. The North Country
  23. Heimweh
  24. Coming Awake
  25. Birdcage Walk
  26. Thief in the Night
  27. Sigh No More
  28. Song of a Man Who Has Come Through
  29. Gloire de Dijon
  30. River Roses
  31. Green
  32. Moonrise
  33. Elegy
  34. Rabbit Snared in the Night
  35. A Doe at Evening
  36. Winter Dawn
  37. Hymn to Priapus
  38. A Young Wife
  39. People
  40. Song of a Man Who Is Not Loved
  41. Pomegranate
  42. Peach
  43. Medlars and Sorb-Apples
  44. Figs
  45. Cypresses
  46. Bare Fig-Trees
  47. Almond Blossom
  48. Purple Anemones
  49. The Mosquito
  50. Fish
  51. Bat
  52. Snake
  53. Baby Tortoise
  54. Tortoise Shout
  55. Turkey-Cock
  56. Humming-Bird
  57. Eagle in New Mexico
  58. The Blue Jay
  59. Kangaroo
  60. Mountain Lion
  61. Snap-Dragon
  62. Seven Seals
  63. Cruelty and Love
  64. Lilies in the Fire
  65. Coldness in Love
  66. End of Another Home-Holiday
  67. Song-Day in Autumn
  68. Red Moon-Rise
  69. Return
  70. Repulsed
  71. Dream-Confused
  72. Morning Work
  73. Transformations: The Town
  74. Transformations: The Earth
  75. Transformations: Men
  76. Renascence
  77. Dog-Tired
  78. Michael-Angelo
  79. Violets
  80. Whether or Not
  81. The Drained Cup
  82. A Snowy Day in School
  83. The Best of School
  84. Afternoon in School: The Last Lesson
  85. Tease
  86. The Wild Common
  87. Study
  88. Discord in Childhood
  89. Virgin Youth
  90. Monologue of a Mother
  91. In a Boat
  92. Week-Night Service
  93. Irony
  94. Dreams Old
  95. Dreams Nascent
  96. A Winter's Tale
  97. Epilogue
  98. A Baby Running Barefoot
  99. Discipline
  100. Scent of Irises
  101. The Prophet
  102. Last Words to Miriam
  103. Mystery
  104. Patience
  105. Ballad of Another Ophelia
  106. Restlessness
  107. A Baby Asleep After Pain
  108. Anxiety
  109. The Punisher
  110. The End
  111. The Bride
  112. The Virgin Mother
  113. At the Window
  114. Drunk
  115. Sorrow
  116. Dolor of Autumn
  117. The Inheritance
  118. Silence
  119. Listening
  120. Brooding Grief
  121. Lotus Hurt by the Cold
  122. Malade
  123. Liaison
  124. Troth with the Dead
  125. Dissolute
  126. Submergence
  127. The Enkindled Spring
  128. Reproach
  129. The Hands of the Betrothed
  130. Excursion
  131. Perfidy
  132. A Spiritual Woman
  133. Mating
  134. A Love Song
  135. Brother and Sister
  136. After Many Days
  137. Blue
  138. A Passing Bell
  139. In Trouble and Shame
  140. Elegy
  141. Grey Evening
  142. Firelight and Nightfall
  143. The Mystic Blue
  144. Nonentity
  145. Martyr à la Mode
  146. Don Juan
  147. The Sea
  148. Ballad of a Wilful Woman
  149. First Morning
  150. "And Oh-- That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be--"
  151. She Looks Back
  152. On the Balcony
  153. Frohnleichnam
  154. In the Dark
  155. Mutilation
  156. Humiliation
  157. Roses on the Breakfast Table
  158. I Am Like a Rose
  159. Rose of All the World
  160. A Youth Mowing
  161. Quite Forsaken
  162. Forsaken and Forlorn
  163. Fireflies in the Corn
  164. Sinners
  165. Misery
  166. Sunday Afternoon in Italy
  167. A Bad Beginning
  168. Why Does She Weep?
  169. Giorno dei Morti
  170. All Souls
  171. Lady Wife
  172. Both Sides of the Medal
  173. Loggerheads
  174. December Night
  175. New Year's Eve
  176. New Year's Night
  177. Valentine's Night
  178. Birth Night
  179. Paradise Re-Entered
  180. Spring Morning
  181. Wedlock
  182. History
  183. One Woman to All Women
  184. Street Lamps
  185. "She Said as Well to Me"
  186. New Heaven and Earth
  187. Elysium
  188. Manifesto
  189. Autumn Rain
  190. Frost Flowers
  191. Craving for Spring
  192. Apprehension
  193. From a College Window
  194. Letter from Town: The Almond Tree
  195. Flat Suburbs, S.W., in the Morning
  196. Letter from Town: On a Grey Evening in March
  197. Suburbs on a Hazy Day
  198. Hyde Park at Night: Clerks
  199. Two-Fold
  200. Under the Oak
  201. Parliament Hill in the Evening
  202. Piccadilly Circus at Night: Street Walkers
  203. Embankment at Night: Charity
  204. Phantasmagoria
  205. Next Morning
  206. Palimpsest of Twilight
  207. Embankment at Night: Outcasts
  208. Winter in the Boulevard
  209. School on the Outskirts
  210. Sickness
  211. Everlasting Flowers
  212. Bitterness of Death
  213. Reading a Letter
  214. Intime
  215. Two Wives
  216. Débâcle
  217. On That Day
  218. Guards
  219. The Little Town at Evening
  220. Last Hours
  221. Town
  222. After the Opera
  223. Going Back
  224. On the March
  225. Bombardment
  226. Winter-Lull
  227. The Attack
  228. Obsequial Ode
  229. Shades
  230. Bread upon the Waters
  231. Ruination
  232. Rondeau of a Conscientious Objector
  233. Tommies in the Train
  234. War-Baby
  235. Nostalgia
  236. Grapes
  237. The Revolutionary
  238. The Evening Land
  239. Peace
  240. Bare Almond-Trees
  241. Tropic
  242. Southern Night
  243. Sicilian Cyclamens
  244. Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers
  245. St Matthew
  246. St Mark
  247. St Luke
  248. St John
  249. Man and Bat
  250. Tortoise Shell
  251. Tortoise Family Connections
  252. Lui et Elle
  253. Tortoise Gallantry
  254. The Ass
  255. He-Goat
  256. She-Goat
  257. Elephant
  258. Bibbles
  259. The Red Wolf
  260. Men in New Mexico
  261. Autumn at Taos
  262. Spirits Summoned West
  263. The American Eagle
  264. Service of All the Dead
  265. Meeting among the Mountains

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