David Herbert Lawrence

Look! We Have Come Through! David Herbert Lawrence

After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, theprotagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her childrenbehind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and thewoman, and between these two and the world around them, till itreaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition ofblessednessMOONRISEAND who has seen the moon, who has not seenHer rise from out the chamber of the deep, Flushed and grand and naked, as from the chamberOf finished bridegroom, seen her rise and throwConfession of delight upon the wave, Littering the waves with her own superscriptionOf bliss, till all her lambent beauty shakes towardsusSpread out and known at last, and we are sureThat beauty is a thing beyond the grave, That perfect, bright experience never fallsTo nothingness, and time will dim the moonSooner than our full consummation hereIn this odd life will tarnish or pass away. ELEGYTHE sun immense and rosyMust have sunk and become extinctThe night you closed your eyes for ever against me. Grey days, and wan, dree dawningsSince then, with fritter of flowers-Day wearies me with its ostentation and fawnings. Still, you left me the nights, The great dark glittery window, The bubble hemming this empty existence withlights. Still in the vast hollowLike a breath in a bubble spinningBrushing the stars, goes my soul, that skims thebounds like a swallow!I can look throughThe film of the bubble night, to where you are. Through the film I can almost touch