The End

Portrait of D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence 1885–1930

If I could have put you in my heart, If but I could have wrapped you in myself, How glad I should have been! And now the chart Of memory unrolls again to me The course of our journey here, before we had to part.

And oh, that you had never, never been Some of your selves, my love, that some Of your several faces I had never seen! And still they come before me, and they go, And I cry aloud in the moments that intervene.

And oh, my love, as I rock for you to-night, And have not any longer any hope To heal the suffering, or make requite For all your life of asking and despair, I own that some of me is dead to-night.

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  1. Audrey United Kingdom

    after coming to know DH Lawrences history and life i appreciate most of his writting(especially odor of chrysanthemums). But yuck! i dont like this one! too schmultzy!

  2. Pippa United Kingdom

    I think that this poem is beautiful. I simply adore the second stanza.

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