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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILENCE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I lost you, I am silence-haunted
Last Line: Down the noise of men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Silence
First Line: Since I lost you, I am silence-haunted
Last Line: Down the noise of men.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Silence
SINCE I lost you I am silence-haunted,
Sounds wave their little wings
A moment, then in weariness settle
On the flood that soundless swings.
Whether the people in the street
Like pattering ripples go by,
Or whether the theatre sighs and sighs
With a loud, hoarse sigh:
Or the wind shakes a ravel of light
Over the dead-black river,
Or night's last echoing
Makes the daybreak shiver:
I feel the silence waiting
To sip them all up again
In its vast completeness drinking
Down the noise of men.
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