Poem by David Herbert Lawrence

Courage

What makes peoples unsatisfied
is that they accept lies.

If peoples had courage, and refuse lies
and found out what they really felt and really meant
and acted on it,

they would distil the essential oil out of every experience
and like hazel nuts in autumn, at last
be sweet and sound.

And the young among the old
Would be as in the hazel woods of September
Nutting, gathering nuts of ripe experience.

As it is, all that old can offer
is sour, bitter fruit, cankered by lies. 

1. The Evening Land
2. He-Goat
3. To Women As Far As I'm Concerned
4. She-Goat
5. Mating

Arthur Benson Courage ("I have been brave in my way")

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