Hilda Doolittle Poems

All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
...

The mysteries remain,
I keep the same
cycle of seed-time
and of sun and rain;
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Rose, harsh rose,
marred and with stint of petals,
meagre flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,
...

1.

Each of us like you
has died once,
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Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted.
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O wind, rend open the heat,
cut apart the heat,
rend it to tatters.
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Where the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings
and darker beak,
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Can we believe -- by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
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Whirl up, sea—
Whirl your pointed pines.
Splash your great pines
On our rocks.
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Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
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