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

BIRDS, BEASTS
AND FLOWERS

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.

CONTENTS

[FRUITS:]
PAGE
[Pomegranate][11]
[Peach][13]
[Medlars and Sorb-Apples][15]
[Figs][18]
[Grapes][22]
[The Revolutionary][25]
[The Evening Land][28]
[Peace][33]
[TREES:]
[Cypresses][37]
[Bare Fig-Trees][41]
[Bare Almond-Trees][44]
[Tropic][46]
[Southern Night][47]
[FLOWERS:]
[Almond Blossom][51]
[Purple Anemones][56]
[Sicilian Cyclamens][60]
[Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers][63]
[THE EVANGELISTIC BEASTS:]
[St Matthew][73]
[St Mark][78]
[St Luke][81]
[St John][84]
[CREATURES:]
[Mosquito][89]
[Fish][93]
[Bat][100]
[Man and Bat][103]
[REPTILES:]
[Snake][113]
[Baby Tortoise][117]
[Tortoise Shell][121]
[Tortoise Family Connections][124]
[Lui et Elle][127]
[Tortoise Gallantry][132]
[Tortoise Shout][134]
[BIRDS:]
[Turkey-Cock][141]
[Humming-Bird][146]
[Eagle in New Mexico][147]
[Blue Jay][150]
[ANIMALS:]
[Ass][155]
[He-Goat][160]
[She-Goat][165]
[Elephant][169]
[Kangaroo][176]
[Bibbles][179]
[Mountain Lion][187]
[The Red Wolf][190]
[GHOSTS:]
[Men in New Mexico][197]
[Autumn at Taos][199]
[Spirits summoned West][201]
[The American Eagle][205]