D. H. Lawrence: After The Opera

D. H. Lawrence

(1885-1930)

 

After The Opera

 

Down the stone stairs

Girls with their large eyes wide with tragedy

Lift looks of shocked and momentous emotion up at me.

And I smile.

 

Ladies

Stepping like birds with their bright and pointed feet

Peer anxiously forth, as if for a boat to carry them out of the wreckage,

And among the wreck of the theatre crowd

I stand and smile.

 

They take tragedy so becomingly.

Which pleases me.

 

But when I meet the weary eyes

The reddened aching eyes of the bar-man with thin arms,

I am glad to go back to where I came from.

 

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