Best known as the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women In Love, D. H. Lawrence (1885?1930) also wrote some of the twentieth century's finest poetry. Lawrence is noted for his use of words in a richly textured manner that produces vivid images and expresses deep emotion. This ample collection of his verse covers a wide thematic range, including love, marriage, family, class, art, and culture, all treated with extraordinary exuberance, intensity, sensitivity, and occasional humor.
These selections originally appeared in Love Poems and Others (1913), Amores (1916), Look! We Have Come Through! (1917), Tortoises (1921), and such periodicals as The Dial and English Review. In addition to the celebrated title poem, individual works include "A Collier's Wife," "Monologue of a Mother," "Quite Forsaken," "Wedlock," "Fireflies in the Corn," "New Heaven and Earth," and many others.

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From Love Poems and Others (1913):
Bei Hennef
A Collier's Wife
The Schoolmaster:
I. A Snowy Day in School
II. The Best of School
III. Afternoon in School: The Last Lesson
Cruelty and Love

From Amores (1916):
A Baby Running Barefoot
A Baby Asleep After Pain
Monologue of a Mother
The Wild Common

From Look! We Have Come Through! (1917):
"And Oh-That the Man I Am Might Cease to Be-"
She Looks Back
Frohnleichnam
In the Dark
Gloire de Dijon
A Youth Mowing
Quite Forsaken
Fireflies in the Corn
A Doe at Evening
Both Sides of the Medal
Spring Morning
Wedlock
"She Said as Well to Me"
New Heaven and Earth

From Tortoises (1921):
Baby Tortoise
Tortoise-Shell
Tortoise Family Connections
Lui et Elle
Tortoise Galllantry
Tortoise Shout

From Periodicals:
Snake (from The Dial, July 1921)
Fish (from English Review, June 1922)
Bat (from English Review, November 1922)
The Mosquito (from The Bookman, July 1921)
Humming-Bird (from The New Republic, May 11, 1921)
Pomegranate (from English Review, August 1921)
Medlars and Sorb-Apples (from English Review, August 1921)