H. D. Light Poems
- 1. Song
You are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
... - 2. Sheltered Garden
I have had enough.
I gasp for breath.
Every way ends, every road,
... - 3. Never More Will The Wind
Never more will the wind
cherish you again,
never more will the rain.
... - 4. Mid-day
The light beats upon me.
I am startled-
a split leaf crackles on the paved floor-
I am anguished-defeated.
... - 5. Let Zeus
I
I say, I am quite done,
quite done with this;
... - 6. Fragment Sixty-eight
. . . even in the house of Hades.
-Sappho
... - 7. Eurydice
Why did you turn back,
that hell should be reinhabited
of myself thus
swept into nothingness?
... - 8. Cities
Can we believe-by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed here in disgust,
... - 9. Cassandra
O Hymen king.
Hymen, O Hymen king,
what bitter thing is this?
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