Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT A LOOSE END, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE



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First Line: Many years have I still to burn, detained
Last Line: A night where she dreams my dreams for me, ever the same.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Variant Title(s): 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.







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