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O, give me burning blue
and brittle burnt sea-weed above the tide-line,
as I stand, still unsatisfied,
under the long shadow-on-snow of the pine.
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The reason is:
rats leave the sinking ship
but we...
we...
didn't leave,
so the ship
didn't sink,
and that's madness,
Lear's song
that's Touchstone's forest jest,
that's swan of Avon logic.
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We don't have to know,
only to be:
let go the jumble of worn words,
reason and vanity.
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For one moment seek
a lesser beauty
and a lesser grace,
but you will find
no peace in the end
save in her presence.
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod....
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For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life.
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War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant:
Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.
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The Christos-image
is most difficult to disentangle
from its art-craft junk-shop
paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
of pain-worship and death-symbol.
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The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
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Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?
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I smiled,
I waited,
I was circumspect;
O never, never, never write that I
missed life or loving.
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I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder.
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I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.
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Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over.
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So you may say,
"Greek flower; Greek ecstasy reclaims for ever
one who died following
intricate songs' lost measure."
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Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.
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O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and mountain worship.
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Music sets up ladders,
it makes us invisible,
it sets us apart,
it lets us escape;
but from the visible
there is no escape.
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My eye-balls are glass,
my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask.
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Why wait for Death to mow?
why wait for Death to sow
us in the ground?
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We are voyagers, discoverers
of the not-known,
the unrecorded;
we have no map;
possibly we will reach haven,
heaven.
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There is no man can take,
there is no pool can slake,
ultimately I am alone;
ultimately I am done.
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Alas, day, you brought light,
You trailed splendour
You showed us god:
I salute you, most precious one,
But I go to a new place,
Another life.
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H.D.
Born:
September 10, 1886
Died:
September 27, 1961
(aged 75)
Bio:
Hilda "H.D." Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name of H.D..
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