English Poetry. David Herbert Lawrence. Dissolute. Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс.

David Herbert Lawrence (Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс)

Dissolute

Many years have I still to burn, detained
Like a candle flame on this body; but I enshine
A darkness within me, a presence which sleeps contained
In my flame of living, her soul enfolded in mine.

And through these years, while I burn on the fuel of life,
What matter the stuff I lick up in my living flame,
Seeing I keep in the fire-core, inviolate,
A night where she dreams my dreams for me, ever the same. 

David Herbert Lawrence’s other poems:

1. Submergence
2. The Bride
3. Brooding Grief
4. Liaison
5. Bat

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