The Complete Poetical Works of D. H. Lawrence (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. From Georgian roots to modernist fervor: love, nature, and Whitman-inflected British verseBy D. H. Lawrence

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The Complete Poetical Works of D. H. Lawrence gathers the full range of Lawrence's verse, from early Georgian-inflected lyrics to the bold, unrhymed, exploratory poems of Birds, Beasts and Flowers and the late meditations of Pansies and Last Poems. Restless, sensuous, and often prophetic, these poems reject decorative prettiness in favor of immediacy: living bodies, animal presences, sexual candor, spiritual conflict, and the modern self in revolt against mechanized civilization. David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930), born in the Nottinghamshire coalfields, brought to poetry the tensions that shaped his fiction: class mobility, fraught family life, illness, exile, erotic intensity, and a fierce suspicion of industrial modernity. His travels through Italy, Australia, Mexico, and the American Southwest widened his symbolic geography, while his lifelong quarrel with convention led him to seek a language closer to instinct, blood, and elemental perception. This collection is indispensable for readers who know Lawrence chiefly as a novelist, for it reveals the lyric and philosophical core of his imagination. It will reward students of modernism, admirers of visionary nature poetry, and anyone interested in a writer who made poetry a charged encounter between body, world, and spirit. This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience. - A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions. - The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing. - A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation. - A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists. - A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths. - Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts. - Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.

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1The Complete Poetical Works of D. H. Lawrence (Annotated)

326Old Song

2Introduction

327Good Husbands Make Unhappy Wives

3Author Biography

328November by the Sea

4Historical Context

329Fight! O My Young Men

5Synopsis (Selection)

330Women Want Fighters for Their Lovers

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6Poetry Collections

331It’s Either You Fight Or You Die

7Love Poems and others

332Don’ts

8Wedding Morn

333The Risen Lord

9Kisses in the Train

334The Secret Waters

10Cruelty and Love

335Obscenity

11Cherry Robbers

336Beware! O My Dear Young Men

12Lilies in the Fire

337Sex Isn’t Sin

13Coldness in Love

338Sex and Trust

14End of Another Home-holiday

339The Gazelle Calf

15Reminder

340The Elephant is Slow to Mate

16Bei Hennef

341Little Fish

17Lightning

342The Mosquito Knows

18Song-day in Autumn

343Self-Pity

19Aware

344New Moon

20A Pang of Reminiscence

345Spray

21A White Blossom

346Seaweed

22Red Moon-rise

347My Enemy

23Return

348Touch

24The Appeal

349Noli Me Tangere

25Repulsed

350Chastity

26Dream-confused

351Let Us Talk, Let Us Laugh

27Corot

352Touch Comes

28Morning Work

353Leave Sex Alone

29Transformations

354The Mess of Love

30Renascence

355Climb Down, O Lordly Mind

31Dog-tired

356Ego-Bound

32Michael-angelo

357Jealousy

33Violets

358Ego-Bound Women

34Whether or Not

359Fidelity

35A Collier’s Wife

360Know Deeply, Know Thyself More Deeply

36The Drained Cup

361All I Ask

37The Schoolmaster

362The Universe Flows

38II. The Best of School

363Underneath

39III. Afternoon in School

364The Primal Passions

40Amores

365Escape

41Tease

366The Root of Our Evil

42The Wild Common

367The Ignoble Procession

43Study

368No Joy in Life

44Discord in Childhood

369Wild Things in Captivity

45Virgin Youth

370Mournful Young Man

46Monologue of a Mother

371There is No Way Out

47In a Boat

372Money-Madness

48Week-night Service

373Kill Money

49Irony

374Men Are Not Bad

50Dreams Old and Nascent

375Nottingham’s New University

51Dreams Old and Nascent

376I am in a Novel

52A Winter's Tale

377No! Mr Lawrence!

53Epilogue

378Red-Herring

54A Baby Running Barefoot

379Our Moral Age

55Discipline

380My Naughty Book

56Scent of Irises

381The Little Wowser

57The Prophet

382The Young and Their Moral Guardians

58Last Words to Miriam

383When I Read Shakespeare

59Mystery

384Salt of the Earth

60Patience

385Fresh Water

61Ballad of Another Ophelia

386Peace and War

62Restlessness

387Many Mansions

63A Baby Asleep After Pain

388Glory

64Anxiety

389Woe

65The Punisher

390Attila

66The End

391What Would You Fight For?

67The Bride

392Choice

68The Virgin Mother

393Riches

69At the Window

394Poverty

70Drunk

395Noble

71Sorrow

396Wealth

72Dolor of Autumn

397Tolerance

73The Inheritance

398Compari

74Silence

399Sick

75Listening

400Dead People

76Brooding Grief

401Cerebral Emotions

77Lotus Hurt by the Cold

402Wellsian Futures

78Malade

403To Women, as Far as I’m Concerned

79Liaison

404Blank

80Troth With the Dead

405Elderly Discontented Women

81Dissolute

406Old People

82Submergence

407The Grudge of the Old

83The Enkindled Spring

408Beautiful Old Age

84Reproach

409Courage

85The Hands of the Betrothed

410Desire is Dead

86Excursion

411When the Ripe Fruit Falls

87Perfidy

412Elemental

88A Spiritual Woman

413Fire

89Mating

414I Wish I Knew a Woman

90A Love Song

415Talk

91Brother and Sister

416The Effort of Love

92After Many Days

417Can’t he Borne

93Blue

418Man Reaches a Point

94Snap-dragon

419Grasshopper is a Burden

95A Passing Bell

420Bas ta!

96In Trouble and Shame

421Tragedy

97Elegy

422After All the Tragedies are Over

98Grey Evening

423Nullus

99Firelight and Nightfall

424Dies Irae

100The Mystic Blue

425Dies Illa

101Look! We have come through!

426Stop It

102Foreword

427The Death of Our Era

103Argument

428The New Word

104Elegy

429Sun in Me

105Nonentity

430Be Still!

106Martyr À La Mode

431At Last

107Don Juan

432Nemesis

108The Sea

433The Optimist

109Hymn to Priapus

434The Third Thing

110Ballad of a Wilful Woman

435The Sane Universe

111First Morning

436Fear of Society is the Root of All Evil

112She Looks Back

437God

113On the Balcony

438Sane and Insane

114Frohnleichnam

439A Sane Revolution

115In the Dark

440Always This Paying

116Humiliation

441Poor Young Things

117Green

442A Played-Out Game

118River Roses

443Triumph

119Gloire De Dijon

444The Combative Spirit

120Rose of All the World

445Wages

121Quite Forsaken

446Young Fathers

122Forsaken and Forlorn

447A Tale Told by an Idiot

123Fireflies in the Corn

448Being Alive

124Sinners

449Self-Protection

125Misery

450A Man

126Winter Dawn

451Lizard

127Why Does She Weep?

452Relativity

128Giorno Dei Morti

453Space

129All Souls

454Sun-Men

130Lady Wife

455Sun-Women

131Both Sides of the Medal

456Democracy

132Loggerheads

457Aristocracy of the Sun

133December Night

458Conscience

134New Year's Eve

459The Middle Classes

135New Year's Night

460Immorality

136Valentine's Night

461Censors

137Birth Night

462Man’s Image

138Rabbit Snared in the Night

463Immoral Man

139Paradise Re-entered

464Cowards

140Spring Morning

465Think -!

141Wedlock

466Peacock

142History

467Paltry-Looking People

143One Woman to All Women

468Tarts

144People

469Latter-Day Sinners

145Street Lamps

470What Matters

146New Heaven and Earth

471Fate and the Younger Generation

147Elysium

472As for Me, I’m a Patriot

148Manifesto

473The Rose of England

149Autumn Rain

474England in 1929

150Frost Flowers

475Liberty’s Old Story

151Craving for Spring

476New Brooms

152New Poems

477Police Spies

153Apprehension

478Now It’s Happened

154Coming Awake

479Energetic Women

155From a College Window

480Film Passion

156Flapper

481Female Coercion

157Birdcage Walk

482Volcanic Venus

158Letter from Town: The

483What Does She Want?

159Flat Suburbs, S.W., In The

484Wonderful Spiritual Women

160Thief in the Night

485Poor Bit of a Wench!

161Letter From Town: On A

486What Ails Thee?

162Suburbs on a Hazy Day

487It’s No Good!

163Hyde Park At Night, Before

488Don’t Look at Me!

164Gipsy

489Ships in Bottles

165Two-fold

490Know Thyself, and That Thou Art Mortal

166Under the Oak

491What is Man Without an Income?

167Sigh No More

492Canvassing for the Election

168Love Storm

493Altercation

169Parliament Hill In The

494Climbing Up

170Piccadilly Circus At Night

495To Clarinda

171Tarantella

496Conundrums

172In Church

497A Rise in the World

173Piano

498Up He Goes!

174Embankment At Night

499The Saddest Day

175Phantasmagoria

500Prestige

176Next Morning

501Have Done with It

177Palimpsest Of Twilight

502Henriette

178Embankment At Night

503Vitality

179Winter In The Boulevard

504Willy Wet-Legs

180School On The Outskirts

505Maybe

181Sickness

506Stand Up!

182Everlasting Flowers

507Demon Justice

183The North Country

508Be a Demon!

184Bitterness Of Death

509The Jeune Fille

185Seven Seals

510Trust

186Reading A Letter

511Nettles

187Twenty Years Ago

512A Rose is not a Cabbage

188Intime

513The Man in the Street

189Two Wives

514Britannia’s Baby

190Heimweh

515Change of Government

191Debacle

516The British Workman and the Government

192Narcissus

517Clydesider

193Autumn Sunshine

518Flapper Vote

194On That Day

519Songs I Learnt at School

195Bay: A Book of Poems

520Innocent England

196Guards!

521Give Me a Sponge

197Evolutions Of Soldiers

522Puss-Puss!

198The Little Town At Evening

523London Mercury

199Last Hours

524My Little Critics

200Town

525Editorial Office

201After The Opera

526The Great Newspaper Editor to his Subordinate

202Going Back

527Modern Prayer

203On The March

528Cry of the Masses

204Bombardment

529What Have They Done to You?

205Winter-lull

530The People

206The Attack

531The Factory Cities

207Obsequial Ode

532Leaves of Grass, Flowers of Grass

208Shades

533Magnificent Democracy

209Bread Upon The Waters

534Last Poems

210Ruination

535The Greeks Are Coming

211Rondeau Of A Conscientious

536The Argonauts

212Tommies In The Train

537Middle Of The World

213War-baby

538For The Heroes Are Dipped In Scarlet

214Nostalgia

539Demiurge

215Tortoises

540The Work Of Creation

216Baby Tortoise

541Red Geranium And Godly Mignonette

217Tortoise-shell

542Bodiless God

218Tortoise Family Connections

543The Body Of God

219Lui Et Elle

544The Rainbow

220Tortoise Gallantry

545Maximus

221Tortoise Shout

546The Man Of Tyre

222Birds, Beasts and Flowers

547They Say The Sea Is Loveless

223FRUITS

548Whales Weep Not!

224Pomegranate

549Invocation To The Moon

225Peach

550Butterfly

226Medlars and Sorb-apples

551Bavarian Gentians

227Figs

552Lucifer

228Grapes

553The Breath Of Life

229The Revolutionary

554Silence

230The Evening Land

555The Hands Of God

231Peace

556Pax

232TREES

557Abysmal Immortality

233Cypresses

558Only Man

234Bare Fig-trees

559Return Of Returns

235Bare Almond-Trees

560Stoic

236Tropic

561In The Cities

237Southern Night

562Lord’s Prayer

238FLOWERS

563Mana Of The Sea

239Almond Blossom

564Salt

240Purple Anemones

565The Four

241Sicilian Cyclamens

566The Boundary Stone

242Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers

567Spilling The Salt

243THE EVANGELISTIC BEASTS

568Walk Warily

244St Matthew

569Mystic

245St Mark

570Anaxagoras

246St Luke

571Kissing And Horrid Strife

247St John

572When Satan Fell

248CREATURES

573Doors

249The Mosquito

574Evil Is Homeless

250Fish

575What Then Is Evil?

251Bat

576The Evil World-soul

252Man and Bat

577The Wandering Cosmos

253REPTILES

578Death Is Not Evil, Evil Is Mechanical

254Snake

579Strife

255Baby Tortoise

580The Late War

256Tortoise Shell

581Murder

257Tortoise Family Connections

582Murderous Weapons

258Lui et Elle

583Departure

259Tortoise Gallantry

584The Ship Of Death

260Tortoise Shout

585Difficult Death

261BIRDS

586All Souls’ Day

262Turkey-Cock

587The Houseless Dead

263Humming-Bird

588Beware The Unhappy Dead!

264Eagle in New Mexico

589After All Saints’ Day

265The Blue Jay

590Song Of Death

266ANIMALS

591The End, The Beginning

267The Ass

592Sleep

268He-Goat

593Sleep And Waking

269She Goat

594Fatigue

270Elephant

595Forget

271Kangaroo

596Know-all

272Bibbles

597Tabernacle

273Mountain Lion

598Temples

274The Red Wolf

599Shadows

275GHOSTS

600Change

276Men in New Mexico

601Phoenix

277Autumn at Taos

602The Savage Pilgrimage: Biography of D. H. Lawrenceby Catherine Carswell

278Spirits Summoned West

603Introductory Note

279The American Eagle

604PART ONE

280Pansies

605Chapter 1

281Our Day is Over

606Chapter 2

282Hark in the Dusk!

607PART TWO

283Elephants in the Circus

608Chapter 1

284Elephants Plodding

609Chapter 2

285On the Drum

610Chapter 3

286Two Performing Elephants

611Chapter 4

287Twilight

612Chapter 5

288Cups

613Chapter 6

289Bowls

614Chapter 7

290You

615Chapter 8

291After Dark

616Chapter 9

292Destiny

617Chapter 10

293To Let Go or to Hold On — ?

618Chapter 11

294How Beastly the Bourgeois is

619Chapter 12

295Worm Either Way

620PART THREE

296Leda

621Chapter 1

297Natural Complexion

622Chapter 2

298The Oxford Voice

623Chapter 3

299To be Superior

624Chapter 4

300True Democracy

625Chapter 5

301Swan

626Chapter 6

302Give Us Gods

627PART FOUR

303Won’t It be Strange — ?

628Chapter 1

304Spiral Flame

629Chapter 2

305Let the Dead Bury Their Dead

630Chapter 3

306When Wilt Thou Teach the People — ?

631Chapter 4

307A Living

632Chapter 5

308When I Went to the Film

633Chapter 6

309When I Went to the Circus

634PART FIVE

310The Noble Englishman

635Chapter 1

311Things Men Have Made

636Chapter 2

312Things Made by Iron

637Chapter 3

313New Houses, New Clothes

638Chapter 4

314Whatever Man Makes

639PART SIX

315We are Transmitters

640Chapter 1

316Let Us be Men

641Chapter 2

317All That We Have is Life

642Chapter 3

318Work

643Chapter 4

319Why — ?

644Chapter 5

320Moon Memory

645Chapter 6

321What is He?

646Chapter 7

322O! Start a Revolution

647Analysis

323There is Rain in Me

648Reflection

324Desire Goes Down into the Sea

649Memorable Quotes

325The Sea, the Sea

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