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from Pictures taken in the old city of Jerusalem during a Street "Portrait Workshop" with the photographer Alon Kira, 2010. Photo by Slavic Peregrine Doll. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

from Pictures taken in the old city of Jerusalem during a Street "Portrait Workshop" with the photographer Alon Kira, 2010. Photo by Slavic Peregrine Doll. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Green  (1914) 
by D.H. Lawrence
from Poetry, January 1914



Green[]


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.


This poem is in the public domain