| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Prisoner at Work in a Turkish Garden | | By D. H. Lawrence |
| | From “War Films”
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. | |
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| You forty ladies in the harem bower, | 5 |
| Listen, for I will explain! | |
| Bitter to me is this evening hour; | |
| Each evening, bitter again. | |
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Response from the Harem:
Sisters, I am sorry for this foreign man | |
| Who labors all day in the sun. | 10 |
| Sisters, the search-light’s swinging fan | |
| In heaven has begun. | |
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| Stranger, soft are the tears that fall | |
| For pity of thee. | |
| Sisters, the guns are speaking; let all | 15 |
| Sing soothingly. | | | | |
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