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• remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fall, Apples, Tree

  Hilda Doolittle, Aliki Barnstone (1973). “Trilogy”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Love that I bear
  within my breast
  how is my armour melted
  how my heart

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Heart, Bears

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

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• When you would think,
  "what was the use of it,"
  you'll remember
  something you can't grasp
  and you'll wonder
  what it was.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Thinking, Remember Something, Use

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.297, New Directions Publishing

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• Passionate grave thought,
  belief enhanced,
  ritual returned and magic.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Magic, Passionate, Belief

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.141, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is a garment
  riven in the light
  that rises from Parnassus,
  showing
  the night is over.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Night, Light

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.269, New Directions Publishing

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• War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
  We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
  Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant:
  Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Loss, Sea

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
  They have pointed the helms of their ships
  Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Anger, Greek

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• Could beauty be beaten out,
  O youth the cities have sent
  to strike at each other's strength,
  it is you who have kept her alight.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Cities, Youth

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• Pompeii has nothing to teach us,
  we know crack of volcanic fissure,
  slow flow of terrible lava,
  pressure on heart, lungs, the brain
  about to burst its brittle case
  (what the skull can endure!)

  Hilda Doolittle

  Heart, Skulls, Brain

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.510, New Directions Publishing

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• I had drawn away into the salt,
  myself, a shell
  emptied of life.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Solitude, Shells, Salt

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• The race may or may not be to the swift,
  but tell me, is it likely
  that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Fighting, Race

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.323, New Directions Publishing

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• We are these people,
  wistful, ironical, wilful,
  who have no part in
  new-world reconstruction,
  in the confederacy of labour.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Change, People, World

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• Not God
  with wine,
  nor death,
  nor hate for a cry,
  but God with a song

  Hilda Doolittle

  God, Song, Hate

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.466, New Directions Publishing

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• When the shingles hissed
  in the rain incendiary,
  other values were revealed to us

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Rain, Understanding

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.520, New Directions Publishing

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• Lift up our eyes to you?
  no, God, we stare and stare,
  upon a nearer thing
  that greets us here,
  Death, violent and near.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Death, War, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.479, New Directions Publishing

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• A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
  my thoughts are spent
  as the black seeds.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Wind

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Long hours
  trail in their purple
  and long years are lost
  in just this moment
  while our souls are near,
  our mouths separate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Years, Purple

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• I knew the poor,
  I knew the hideous death they die,
  when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
  I knew the rich,
  sated with merriment,
  who yet are sad.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Knowledge, Doors

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• No man will be present in those mysteries,
  yet all men will kneel,
  no man will be potent,
  important,
  yet all men will feel
  what it is to be a woman.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Men, Important, Mystery

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.110, New Directions Publishing

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• O happy, happy each
  man whom predestined fate
  leads to the holy rite
  of hill and mountain worship.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fate, Men, Mountain

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.223, New Directions Publishing

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• Light threatens, is active, is gone,
  so it is with a song.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Music, Song, Light

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.401, New Directions Publishing

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• The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Philosophy, Rain, Medicine

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.438, New Directions Publishing

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• I testify
  to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
  and walls of colour,
  the colonnades of jasper.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wall, Rainbow, Poetry

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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• Ardent
  yet chill and formal,
  how I ache
  to tempt a chisel
  as a sculptor.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Chill, Ache

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

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• Take what the old-church
  found in Mithra's tomb,
  candle and script and bell,
  take what the new-church spat upon
  and broke and shattered.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Poetry, Church, Iconoclasm

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, New Directions Publishing

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