H. D. Touch Poems
- 1. The Pool
Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
... - 2. Helen In Egypt
Helen herself seems almost ready for this sacrifice
-at least, for the immolation of
herself before this greatest love of Achilles,
... - 3. Fragment Sixty-eight
. . . even in the house of Hades.
-Sappho
... - 4. At Baia
I should have thought
in a dream you would have brought
some lovely, perilous thing,
orchids piled in a great sheath,
...
