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قراءة كتاب Hymen
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HYMEN
By
H. D.
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1921
FOR BRYHER AND PERDITA
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.
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.
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 song | 25 |
| the islands | 27 |
| at baia | 30 |
| sea heroes | 31 |
| "not honey" | 33 |
| evadne | 34 |
| song | 35 |
| why have you sought | 36 |
| the whole white world | 37 |
| phaedra | 38 |
| she contrasts with herself hippolyta | 40 |
| she rebukes hippolyta | 42 |
| egypt | 44 |
| helios | 45 |
| prayer | 47 |
HYMEN
As from a temple service, tall and dignified, with slow pace, each a queen, the sixteen matrons from the temple of Hera pass before the curtain—a dark purple hung between Ionic columns—of the porch or open hall of a palace. Their hair is bound as the marble hair of the temple Hera. Each wears a crown or diadem of gold.
They