- 1. Stars Wheel In Purple
Stars wheel in purple, yours is not so rare
as Hesperus, nor yet so great a star
as bright Aldeboran or Sirius,
nor yet the stained and brilliant one of War;
...
- 2. Song
You are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
...
- 3. Sheltered Garden
I have had enough.
I gasp for breath.
Every way ends, every road,
...
- 4. Pear Tree
Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted,
...
- 5. Oread
Whirl up, sea-
whirl your pointed pines,
splash your great pines
on our rocks,
...
- 6. Mid-day
The light beats upon me.
I am startled-
a split leaf crackles on the paved floor-
I am anguished-defeated.
...
- 7. Let Zeus
I
I say, I am quite done,
quite done with this;
...
- 8. Cities
Can we believe-by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
...
- 9. 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.
