Hilda Doolittle, from Collected Poems 1912-1944; "Eros,"
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Cesar Vallejo, from a letter to Oscar Imana written c. January 1918
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Anna Akhmatova, from "Rachel" featured in "The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova" (trans by Judith Hemschemeyer)
H.D, from The Collected Poems: 1912-1944; "For Bryher and Perdita"
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Hilda Doolittle
Collected Poems (1912-1944)
“Eurydice”
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I waited too long for you.
I will devour you, love you into flame,...
// H.D., Collected Poems: 1912-1944; "A Dead Priestess Speaks,"
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H. D. (hilda doolittle), from collected poems: 1912-1944, edited by louis martz, new directions, 1983.
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I open my HD Collected Poems 1912-1944 on page 7 to a poem called The Shrine and next to the title I have written, with an arrow pointing to it, as big as the title itself “PUSSY?”
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and I didn’t care / and I was alone / and there had been war, / and that thing (my soul) / was a lost star / or a lost boat / adrift,
H.D. - 'Collected Poems 1912-1944;' “Child Poems: Dedication”
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Cesar Vallejo, from a letter to Oscar Imana
Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals
H.D, from The Collected Poems: 1912-1944;
Anna Akhmatova, from "Rachel"
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Helen by H.D.
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the lustre as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.
Greece sees unmoved,
God’s daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), “Helen” from Collected Poems 1912-1944. Copyright © 1982 by The Estate of Hilda Doolittle. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944 (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982
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Hilda Doolittle, from Collected Poems 1912-1944; "Amaranth,"
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Hilda Doolittle
Collected Poems 1912–1944
“The Gift”
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and that thing (my soul) was a lost star
// H.D., Child Poems in "Collected Poems 1912-1944"
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HD, "Sigil [XII]" from Collected Poems 1912-1944, p. 413
(one of my favorites from sigil)
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“I am perfectly aware, perfectly cold;”
H.D., Collected Poems 1912-1944; “The Dancer,”
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