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Hilda Doolittle Poems

  • Lethe
    NOR skin nor hide nor fleece
    Shall cover you,
    Nor curtain of crimson nor fine
    Shelter of cedar-wood be over you, ...
  • At Baia
    I should have thought
    in a dream you would have brought
    some lovely, perilous thing,
    orchids piled in a great sheath, ...
  • From Citron-bower
    From citron-bower be her bed,
    cut from branch of tree a-flower,
    fashioned for her maidenhead.
    ...
  • At Ithaca
    Over and back,
    the long waves crawl
    and track the sand with foam;
    night darkens, and the sea ...
  • Orchard
    I saw the first pear
    as it fell--
    the honey-seeking, golden-banded,
    the yellow swarm ...
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Flower 12 Great 10 Light 8 Wind 8 White 8 Sea 7 Gold 7 Bright 6 I Love You 6 God 6


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Literaturelove1: to discuss imagism (distilling a poem down to a concrete image) and hilda doolittle's mid-day "a split leaf crackles on the paved floor" (line 3) - dried, brown, crackly maple leaves for each student to experience in sensory ways. extra points if the leaf remnants cleaned up :)
Mariodefenza: poet hilda doolittle , 1924 photographed by man ray
Literaturelove1: today, in american lit - the magnificent carl sandburg. the beginning of "imagism" with william carlos williams. next time - hilda doolittle!
Shenglisa: so for your arrogance i am broken at last, i who had lived unconscious, who was almost forgot; […] before i am lost, hell must open like a red rose for the dead to pass. hilda doolittle
Tullie23: the pool by hilda doolittle are you alive? i touch you. you quiver like a sea-fish. i cover you with my net. what are you—banded one?
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Eager eye and willing ear,
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