Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUBMERGENCE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE



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First Line: When along the pavement
Last Line: I forget my bereavement.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.


WHEN along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker round me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be.

Nay, though the pole-star
Is blown out like a candle,
And all the heavens are wandering in disarray,
Yet when pleiads of people are
Deployed around me, and I see
The street's long outstretched Milky Way,

When people flicker down the pavement,
I forget my bereavement.






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