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.
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.
D. H. Lawrence’s “Green” captures a moment of awakening in which the natural world and a woman’s eyes share the same vivid color. The speaker sees dawn not as ordinary light but as apple-green, the sky as green wine held up in the sun, and the moon as a golden petal hanging between.
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