BAY

A Book Of Poems

By D. H. Lawrence

1919



TO CYNTHIA ASQUITH






CONTENTS

GUARDS!

EVOLUTIONS OF SOLDIERS

THE LITTLE TOWN AT EVENING

LAST HOURS

TOWN

AFTER THE OPERA

GOING BACK

ON THE MARCH

BOMBARDMENT

WINTER-LULL

THE ATTACK

OBSEQUIAL ODE

SHADES

BREAD UPON THE WATERS.

RUINATION

RONDEAU OF A CONSCIENTIOUS

TOMMIES IN THE TRAIN

WAR-BABY

NOSTALGIA








GUARDS!

     A Review in Hyde Park 1913.     The Crowd Watches.
WHERE the trees rise like cliffs, proud and       blue-tinted in the distance,     Between the cliffs of the trees, on the grey-       green park     Rests a still line of soldiers, red motionless range of       guards     Smouldering with darkened busbies beneath the bay-       onets' slant rain.     Colossal in nearness a blue police sits still on his horse     Guarding the path; his hand relaxed at his thigh,     And skyward his face is immobile, eyelids aslant     In tedium, and mouth relaxed as if smiling—ineffable     tedium!     So! So! Gaily a general canters across the space,     With white plumes blinking under the evening grey       sky.     And suddenly, as if the ground moved     The red range heaves in slow, magnetic reply.








EVOLUTIONS OF SOLDIERS

     The red range heaves and compulsory sways, ah see!       in the flush of a march     Softly-impulsive advancing as water towards a weir       from the arch     Of shadow emerging as blood emerges from inward       shades of our night     Encroaching towards a crisis, a meeting, a spasm and       throb of delight.     The wave of soldiers, the coming wave, the throbbing       red breast of approach     Upon us; dark eyes as here beneath the busbies glit-       tering, dark threats that broach     Our beached vessel; darkened rencontre inhuman, and       closed warm lips, and dark     Mouth-hair of soldiers passing above us, over the wreck       of our bark.     And so, it is ebb-time, they turn, the eyes b                        
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