Piano

The writer :

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was born in September 11, 1885, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, UK and his died March 2, 1930, Vence, France ,his cause of Death : Tuberculosis , and his Nationality: British

D.H. Lawrence

Piano

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;   

Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see   

A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling 

strings   


And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who 

smiles 

as she sings.   
   


In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song

Betrays me back, till the heart of me weeps to belong   

To the old Sunday evenings at home, with winter outside   

And hymns in the cosy parlour, the tinkling piano our guide.   
   


So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour   

With the great black piano appassionato. The glamour 

Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast   

Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.