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Title: Hymen

Author: Hilda Doolittle

Release Date: May 2, 2009 [EBook #28666]

Language: English

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HYMEN

By

H. D.

NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1921

FOR BRYHER AND PERDITA

_They said:
she is high and far and blind
in her high pride,
but now that my head is bowed
in sorrow, I find
she is most kind._

_We have taken life, they said,
blithely, not groped in a mist
for things that are not--
are if you will, but bloodless--
why ask happiness of the dead?
and my heart bled._

_Ah, could they know
how violets throw strange fire,
red and purple and gold,
how they glow
gold and purple and red
where her feet tread._

Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following periodicals in
which certain of these poems have appeared: _Poetry_ (Chicago), _The
Dial_, _Contact_ and _The Bookman_ (New York), _The Nation_, _The
Sphere_, _The Anglo-French Review_ and _The Egoist_ (London).

CONTENTS

HYMEN 7

DEMETER 15

SIMAETHA 19

THETIS 20

CIRCE 21

LEDA 23

HIPPOLYTUS TEMPORIZES 24

CUCKOO S