H. D. Flower Poems
- 1. Wash Of Cold River
Wash of cold river
in a glacial land,
Ionian water,
chill, snow-ribbed sand,
... - 2. Song
You are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
... - 3. Sea Rose
Rose, harsh rose
marred and with stint of petals,
meagre flower, thin,
sparse of leaf,
... - 4. Pear Tree
Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted,
... - 5. Let Zeus
I
I say, I am quite done,
quite done with this;
... - 6. Cassandra
O Hymen king.
Hymen, O Hymen king,
what bitter thing is this?
... - 7. At Baia
I should have thought
in a dream you would have brought
some lovely, perilous thing,
orchids piled in a great sheath,
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