Selected Poems by D.H. Lawrence

Author:D.H. Lawrence [Lawrence, D.H.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: British Literature, Anthologies, Classics, Poetry
ISBN: 9780141919584
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2008-05-28T23:00:00+00:00

The negro might know a little.

When the vine was rose, Gods were dark-skinned.

Bacchus is a dream’s dream.

Once God was all negroid, as now he is fair.

But it’s so long ago, the ancient Bushman has forgotten

more utterly than we, who have never known.

For we are on the brink of re-remembrance.

Which, I suppose, is why America has gone dry.

Our pale day is sinking into twilight,

And if we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us

Out of the imminent night.

Nay, we find ourselves crossing the fern-scented frontiers

Of the world before the floods, where man was dark and

evasive

And the tiny vine-flower rose of all roses, perfumed,

And all in naked communion communicating as now our

clothed vision can never communicate.

Vistas, down dark avenues,

As we sip the wine.

The grape is swart, the avenues dusky and tendrilled, subtly

prehensile,

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