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BROODING GRIEF by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

Poet Analysis

First Line: A YELLOW LEAF FROM THE DARKNESS
Last Line: OF LEAVES AND LAMPS AND TRAFFIC MINGLED BEFORE ME.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
A YELLOW leaf from the darkness
Hops like a frog before me.
Why should I start and stand still?

I was watching the woman that bore me
Stretched in the brindled darkness
Of the sick-room, rigid with will
To die: and the quick leaf tore me
Back to this rainy swill
Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me.




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