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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Green

By D. H. Lawrence

THE DAWN was apple-green,

The sky was green wine held up in the sun,

The moon was a golden petal between.

She opened her eyes, and green

They shone, clear like flowers undone

For the first time, now for the first time seen.