H. D. Light Poems

  • 1.
    You are as gold
    as the half-ripe grain
    that merges to gold again,
    as white as the white rain
    ...
  • 2.
    I have had enough.
    I gasp for breath.

    Every way ends, every road,
    ...
  • 3.
    Never more will the wind
    cherish you again,
    never more will the rain.

    ...
  • 4.
    The light beats upon me.
    I am startled-
    a split leaf crackles on the paved floor-
    I am anguished-defeated.
    ...
  • 5.
    I

    I say, I am quite done,
    quite done with this;
    ...
  • 6.
    . . . even in the house of Hades.

    -Sappho

    ...
  • 7.
    Why did you turn back,
    that hell should be reinhabited
    of myself thus
    swept into nothingness?
    ...
  • 8.
    Can we believe-by an effort
    comfort our hearts:
    it is not waste all this,
    not placed here in disgust,
    ...
  • 9.
    O Hymen king.

    Hymen, O Hymen king,
    what bitter thing is this?
    ...
Total 9 Light Poems by H. D.

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