Shades by D. H. Lawrence

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 24, 2015   Shades   D. H. Lawrence

Shall I tell you, then, how it is?— There came a cloven gleam Like a tongue of darkened flame To flicker in me.   And so I seem To have you still the same In one world with me.   In the flicker of a flower, In a worm that is blind, yet strives, In a mouse that pauses to listen   Glimmers our Shadow; yet it deprives Them none of their glisten.   In every shaken morsel I see our shadow tremble As if it rippled from out of us hand in hand.   As if it were part and parcel, One shadow, and we need not dissemble Our darkness: do you understand?   For I have told you plainly how it is.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “Shades” was published in Lawrence’s book Bay (Beaumont Press, 1919).   D. H. Lawrence was born in England on September 11, 1885. His books include Amores (1916), Look! We Have Come Through (1917), and Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923). Lawrence died in France in 1930. Poetry by Lawrence   D. H. Lawrence: Selected Poems (Penguin Books, 2009) "I Found Her Out There" by Thomas Hardy "A Book of Music" by Jack Spicer "The Song of Despair" by Pablo Neruda Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038