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Title: Amores
Poems

Author: D. H. Lawrence

Release Date: September 7, 2007 [eBook #22531]

Language: English

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D. H. Lawrence (1916) _Amores_

AMORES

Poems

by

D. H. LAWRENCE

New York
B. W. Huebsch
1916

Copyright, 1916, by
D. H. Lawrence

TO

OTTOLINE MORRELL

IN TRIBUTE

TO HER NOBLE

AND INDEPENDENT SYMPATHY

AND HER GENEROUS UNDERSTANDING

THESE POEMS

ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

CONTENTS

Tease
The Wild Common
Study
Discord in Childhood
Virgin Youth
Monologue of a Mother
In a Boat
Week-night Service
Irony
Dreams Old
Dreams Nascent
A Winter's Tale
Epilogue
A Baby Running Barefoot
Discipline
Scent of Irises
The Prophet
Last Words to Miriam
Mystery
Patience
Ballad of Another Ophelia
Restlessness
A Baby Asleep After Pain
Anxiety
The Punisher
The End
The Bride
The Virgin Mother
At the Window
Drunk
Sorrow
Dolor of Autumn
The Inheritance
Silence
Listening
Brooding Grief
Lotus Hurt by the Cold
Malade
Liaison
Troth with the Dead
Dissolute
Submergence
The Enkindled Spring
Reproach
The Hands of the Betrothed
Excursion
Perfidy
A Spiritual Woman
Mating
A Love Song
Brother and Sister
After Many Days
Blue
Snap-Dragon
A Passing Bell
In Trouble and Shame
Elegy
Grey Evening
Firelight and Nightfall
The Mystic Blue

AMORES

TEASE

I WILL give you all my keys,
You shall be my chatelaine,
You shall enter as you please,
As you please shall go again.

When I hear you jingling through
All the chambers of my soul,
How I sit and laugh at you
In your vain housekeeping role.

Jealous of the smallest cover,
Angry at the simplest door;
Well, you anxious, inquisitive lover,
Are you pleased with what's in store?

You have fingered all my treasures,
Have you not, most cu