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"New Year's Eve," by D. H. Lawrence, is a love poem from a collection titled, Look! We Have Come Through!, published when Lawrence was in his early thirties. The collection tells a connected "story, or history, or confession," Lawrence says in his Foreword, "of a man during the crisis of manhood, when he marries and comes into himself." Autobiographically, the "crisis" was provoked by the emotional tumult of Lawrence's recent past -- his meeting, running off to Europe with, and marriage to Frieda Weekley. Whether they ultimately reveal too little or too much -- 
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