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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN CHURCH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: In the choir the boys are singing the hymn
Last Line: Of our sabbath, suffusing our sacred day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
First Line: In the choir the boys are singing the hymn
Last Line: Of our sabbath, suffusing our sacred day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals
IN the choir the boys are singing the hymn.
The morning light on their lips
Moves in silver-moist flashes, in musical trim.
Sudden outside the high window, one crow
Hangs in the air
And lights on a withered oak-tree's top of woe.
One bird, one blot, folded and still at the top
Of the withered tree! -- in the grail
Of crystal heaven falls one full black drop.
Like a soft full drop of darkness it seems to sway
In the tender wine
Of our Sabbath, suffusing our sacred day.
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