36. Brooding Grief. Lawrence, D.H. 1916. Amores

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930). Amores. 1916.

36. Brooding Grief


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	5
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.