H. D. Kiss Poems
- 1. Leda
Where the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings
and darker beak,
... - 2. Cities
Can we believe-by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
... - 3. Cassandra
O Hymen king.
Hymen, O Hymen king,
what bitter thing is this?
... - 4. At Baia
I should have thought
in a dream you would have brought
some lovely, perilous thing,
orchids piled in a great sheath,
...
