Poetry page This page contains some poems by Lawrence which were suggested by members of The Rananim Society as being among their favourites. We hope you enjoy them too. I have been defeated and dragged down by pain and worsted by the evil world-soul of today.
Life is for kissing and for horrid strife.
Life is for the angels and the Sunderers. Life is for the daimons and the demons, those that put honey on our lips, and those that put salt. But life is not for the dead vanity of knowing better, nor the blank cold comfort of superiority, nor silly conceit of being immune, nor pueriIity of contradictions like saying snow is black, or desire is evil. Life is for kissing and for horrid strife, the angels and the Sunderers. And perhaps in unknown Death we perhaps shall know Oneness and poised immunity.