Thursday, January 1, 2004

A Passing Bell Comments

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Mournfully to and fro, to and fro the trees are waving;
What did you say, my dear?
The rain-bruised leaves are suddenly shaken, as a child
Asleep still shakes in the clutch of a sob—
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David Herbert Lawrence
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Dr Antony Theodore 22 August 2019

The roses lean down when they hear it, the tender, mild Flowers of the bleeding-heart fall to the throb— It is such a little thing! great expressions my dear poet. tony

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Kumarmani Mahakul 22 August 2019

Never, he is not, whatever shall come to pass. No, look at the wet starling.......touching concluding. Beautiful poem.

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Aniruddha Pathak 22 August 2019

Mournfully the trees are waving... and birds and life shaking in rain, a pathetic picture it paints on rain, very touching, but I wonder how the same scenario would have been drawn in places where rains are so welcome, even by the birds..

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