Birds, Beasts and Flowers / Poems by D. H. Lawrence

BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS By the same Author The Lost Girl Women in Love Aaron’s Rod The Ladybird Kangaroo Sea and Sardinia New Poems Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious Fantasia of the Unconscious
P O E M S BY D. H. LAWRENCE LONDON MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI Printed in Great Britain by The Riverside Press Limited Edinburgh LONDON: MARTIN SECKER (LTD.) 1923
Some of these poems have appeared in Poetry , The Dial , The New Republic , The Bookman , The English Review .





You tell me I am wrong. Who are you, who is anybody to tell me I am wrong? I am not wrong.
In Syracuse, rock left bare by the viciousness of Greek women, No doubt you have forgotten the pomegranate-trees in flower, Oh so red, and such a lot of them.
Whereas at Venice Abhorrent, green, slippery city Whose Doges were old, and had ancient eyes, In the dense foliage of the inner garden Pomegranates like bright green stone, And barbed, barbed with a crown. Oh, crown of spiked green metal Actually growing!