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

Prisoner at Work in a Turkish Garden

D. H. Lawrence

Appeal from the garden:
Over the fountain and the orange-trees

The evening shadow has sunk,

Bringing night once more, and the man with the keys

That shut me up in my bunk.

You forty ladies in the harem bower,

Listen, for I will explain!

Bitter to me is this evening hour;

Each evening, bitter again.

Response from the Harem:
Sisters, I am sorry for this foreign man

Who labors all day in the sun.

Sisters, the search-light’s swinging fan

In heaven has begun.

Stranger, soft are the tears that fall

For pity of thee.

Sisters, the guns are speaking; let all

Sing soothingly.