- 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,
...
by H. D.
