H. D. Purple Poems
- 1. Orchard
I saw the first pear
As it fell-
The honey-seeking, golden-banded,
The yellow swarm
... - 2. 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;
... - 3. Pear Tree
Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted,
... - 4. Let Zeus
I
I say, I am quite done,
quite done with this;
... - 5. Leda
Where the slow river
meets the tide,
a red swan lifts red wings
and darker beak,
... - 6. Fragment Sixty-eight
. . . even in the house of Hades.
-Sappho
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