H. D. Beauty Poems
- 1. Orchard
I saw the first pear
As it fell-
The honey-seeking, golden-banded,
The yellow swarm
... - 2. Sheltered Garden
I have had enough.
I gasp for breath.
Every way ends, every road,
... - 3. Let Zeus
I
I say, I am quite done,
quite done with this;
... - 4. Helen
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre of the olives
where she stands,
... - 5. Fragment Sixty-eight
. . . even in the house of Hades.
-Sappho
... - 6. Cities
Can we believe-by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
... - 7. Cassandra
O Hymen king.
Hymen, O Hymen king,
what bitter thing is this?
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