Hilda Doolittle White Poems
- 1. At Baia
I should have thought
in a dream you would have brought
some lovely, perilous thing,
orchids piled in a great sheath,
... - 2. Prayer
White, O white faceâ??
from disenchanted days
wither alike dark rose
and fiery bays:
... - 3. Pear Tree
Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted.
... - 4. Evening
The light passes
from ridge to ridge,
from flower to flowerâ??
the hepaticas, wide-spread
... - 5. Eurydice
I
So you have swept me back,
I who could have walked with the live souls
... - 6. Helen
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
... - 7. Cassandra
O Hymen king.
Hymen, O Hymen king,
what bitter thing is this?
... - 8. Song
YOU are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
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