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Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

About D. H. Lawrence

Timeline (1885 - 1930)

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Original Language
English

Song of a Man Who Has Come Through

Themes
  Night
  Water
 
 
 

 

Recommended Books

Acts of Attention: The Poems of D. H. Lawrence, by D. H. Lawrence
Birds, Beasts and Flowers: Poems, by D. H. Lawrence
The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, by D. H. Lawrence
Engendering Inspiration: Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H.D., by Helen Sword
The Selected Poems of D. H. Lawrence, by D. H. Lawrence

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.
If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me!
If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed
By the fine, fine, wind that takes its course through the chaos of the world
Like a fine, an exquisite chisel, a wedge-blade inserted;
If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge
Driven by invisible blows,
The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul,
I would be a good fountain, a good well-head,
Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.

What is the knocking?
What is the knocking at the door in the night?
It is somebody wants to do us harm.

No, no, it is the three strange angels.
Let them come in.

 

 

-- from The Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence, by D. H. Lawrence

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