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Self-Pity

D. H. Lawrence

Internet Archive pansies0000davi: Pansies (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929)

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Source: Internet Archive pansies0000davi: Pansies (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929) Source URL: https://archive.org/details/pansies0000davi Public domain basis: First published in Pansies (1929). Published in the United States in 1929; public domain in the United States as of 1 January 2025 (95-year term). Coverage: Complete: the four-line poem Self-Pity.

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# Self-Pity

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.