#Americans #Imagist #Women
Thou art come at length More beautiful Than any cool god In a chamber under Lycia’s far coast,
The white violet is scented on its stalk, the sea—violet fragile as agate, lies fronting all the wind
I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the hill-crest—
All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the white hands.
Hymen, O Hymen king, what bitter thing is this? what shaft, tearing my heart? what scar, what light, what fire searing my eye—balls and my eyes w…
I saw the first pear as it fell— the honey—seeking, golden—banded, the yellow swarm was not more fleet than I,
So you have swept me back, I who could have walked with the l… above the earth, I who could have slept among the l… at last;
The light passes from ridge to ridge, from flower to flower— the hepaticas, wide—spread under the light
Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens, and the sea takes on that desperate tone
Stars wheel in purple, yours is no… as Hesperus, nor yet so great a st… as bright Aldeboran or Sirius, nor yet the stained and brilliant… stars turn in purple, glorious to…
Can we believe—by an effort comfort our hearts: it is not waste all this, not placed here in disgust, street after street,
I first tasted under Apollo’s lip… love and love sweetness, I, Evadne; my hair is made of crisp violets or hyacinth which the wind combs b…
Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea—fish. I cover you with my net. What are you —banded one?
NOR skin nor hide nor fleece Shall cover you, Nor curtain of crimson nor fine Shelter of cedar—wood be over you, Nor the fir—tree
I should have thought in a dream you would have brought some lovely, perilous thing, orchids piled in a great sheath, as who would say (in a dream),