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with wine,
nor death,
nor hate for a cry,
but God with a song — Hilda Doolittle


the heart
the heart
how it thrives on hate. — Hilda Doolittle

with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust. — Hilda Doolittle


is yours if you surrender
sterile logic, trivial reason. — Hilda Doolittle

delicate the weave,
fair the thread. — Hilda Doolittle





the winds have beaten
the ripe lilies;
in my garden, the salt
has wilted the first flakes
of young narcissus. — Hilda Doolittle

wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour. — Hilda Doolittle







beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships ... — Hilda Doolittle

but a biological reality,
a fact: I am an entity
like bird, insect, plant
or sea-plant cell;
I live; I am alive. — Hilda Doolittle




that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one concise
and metallic blaze. — Hilda Doolittle

belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic. — Hilda Doolittle

how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal? — H.D.




found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered. — Hilda Doolittle



unbridled, with arrow-pattern,
are worked on.
the blue cloth
before the door
of religion and inspiration ... — Hilda Doolittle

the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet. — Hilda Doolittle



"what was the use of it,"
you'll remember
something you can't grasp
and you'll wonder
what it was. — Hilda Doolittle

myself, a shell
emptied of life. — Hilda Doolittle





you are the stark tree unbent,
you are a strung bow,
you are an arrow. — Hilda Doolittle


and meet death. — Hilda Doolittle


save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son? — Hilda Doolittle


within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart — Hilda Doolittle

of the luminous grey-eyes,
Mistress
of honey and marble implacable white thighs
and Goddess,
chaste daughter of Zeus. — Hilda Doolittle

no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near. — Hilda Doolittle

flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder. — Hilda Doolittle

but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it. — Hilda Doolittle


toward me to learn of love. — Hilda Doolittle

why wait for Death to sow
us in the ground? — Hilda Doolittle



from the power of the hunting pack,
and to know that wisdom is best
and beauty
sheer holiness. — Hilda Doolittle

making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle




of Psyche's butterflies. — Hilda Doolittle


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what love taught,
woman is perfect. — Hilda Doolittle



of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle

trail in their purple
and long years are lost
in just this moment
while our souls are near,
our mouths separate. — Hilda Doolittle

my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask. — Hilda Doolittle


you will fall, you great cities. — Hilda Doolittle



O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other's strength,
it is you who have kept her alight. — Hilda Doolittle

it makes us invisible,
it sets us apart,
it lets us escape;
but from the visible
there is no escape. — Hilda Doolittle


till it is broken. — Hilda Doolittle

to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
and walls of colour,
the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle

no lover's kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to counteract
actual bliss. — Hilda Doolittle


but tell me, is it likely
that the fight will be entrusted to the dead? — Hilda Doolittle

riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over. — Hilda Doolittle
