As if roses fought with roses.
One poem by this author describes "balsam-pines that are blue with the grey-blue blueness of / things from the sea" that "stand so still / in the thunder air." A poem by this author set "By the Isar, in the twilight" ends with the speaker watching the "white, unfolding petals" of a woman's wet shoulders flashing "As if roses fought with roses." The speaker asks, "How could murder, even self-murder / ever a quietus make?" in a poem by him that opens with the image of "apples (*) falling like great drops of dew / to bruise themselves an exit from themselves." In another poem by this author, the "honoured" pyjama-clad speaker hears "The voice of [his] education" say, "If you were a man / You would take a stick and break" a "king in exile" "from the burning bowels of the earth." In that poem by him, a man misses his "chance with one of the lords / Of life" by throwing a "clumsy log" at a visitor to his water-trough. For 10 points, name this author of "Ship of Death" and "Snake."
One poem by this author describes "balsam-pines that are blue with the grey-blue blueness of / things from the sea" that "stand so still / in the thunder air."
D(avid) H(erbert) Richards Lawrence