Piano
D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Piano” was published in 1913 in his first collection of poetry, titled “Love Poems and Others”.
David Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, and he died on 2 March 1930 in Vence, Alpes-Maritimes Department, France, at the age of 44.A writer, novelist, poet, and essayist, Lawrence wrote about modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His best-known novels—Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover—were the subject of censorship trials.
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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.