"Pentecostal" by D. H. Lawrence

[View this email on a browser]( [Forward to a friend]( [facebook-icon]( [tumblr-icon]( [twitter-icon]( August 11, 2019 [Pentecostal]( [D. H. Lawrence]( Shall I tell you, then, how it is? There came a cloven gleam, Like a tongue of darkened flame, To burn in me. And so I seem To have you still the same In one world with me. In the flicker of a flower, In a worm that is blind, yet strives, In the mouse that pauses to listen, Glimmers our Shadow as well, and deprives Them none of their glisten. In each shaken morsel Our shadow trembles As if it rippled from out of us hand in hand. We are part and parcel In shadow, nothing dissembles Our darkened universe. You understand? For I have told you plainly how it is. [Like this on Facebook]( [Share via Twitter]( This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 11, 2019, by the Academy of American Poets. ["Pentecostal" by Lawrence]( About This Poem “Pentecostal” was published in the February 1919 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. [D. H. Lawrence]( D. H. Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885, in Nottinghamshire, England. His books include Nettles (Faber and Faber, 1930) and Amores (B. W. Huebsch, 1916), among others. He died in France in 1930. [more-at-poets]( [Complete Poems]( Poetry by Lawrence [Complete Poems]( (Penguin Classics, 1994) "Aftermath" by Willa Cather [read-more]( "Incantation" by Chris Albani [read-more]( "Grace" by Joy Harjo [read-more]( August Guest Editor: Ruth Ellen Kocher Thanks to [Ruth Ellen Kocher](, author of Third Voice (Tupelo Press, 2016), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month’s weekdays. Read a [Q&A with Kocher]( about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our [guest editors for the year.]( [make a one-time donation]( [illustration]( [Small-Blue-RGB-poets.org-Logo]( Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit [Poets.org](. You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click [here](. © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038