D. H. Lawrence. People. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

People

By D. H. Lawrence


THE GREAT gold apples of night
Hang from the street’s long bough,
Dripping their light
On the faces that drift below,
On the faces that drift and go	5
Down the night-time, out of sight
In the wind’s sad sough.

The ripeness of these apples of night
Distilling over me
Makes sickening the white	10
Ghost-flux of faces that hie
Them endlessly, endlessly by,
Without meaning or reason why
They ever should be.