Heliodora, and Other Poems

By H. D.

Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist and memoirist, usually associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets, that included the modernist poets Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name H.D., and is today regarded as a forerunner of Lesbian Poetry.
This book of poetry has some of her greatest works within.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 5, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338079442

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H. D.

Heliodora, and Other Poems

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4066338079442

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Heliodora

Holy Satyr

Lais

Heliodora

Helen

Nossis

Centaur Song

Oread

The Pool

Thetis

At Ithaca

We Two

Fragment Thirty-six

Flute Song

After Troy

Cassandra O Hymen king.

Epigrams

1

2

Fragment Forty Love ... bitter-sweet. SAPPHO

1

2

3

4

5

Toward the Piræus

1

2

3

4

5

Moonrise

At Eleusis

Fragment Forty-one ... thou flittest to Andromeda. SAPPHO

1

2

3

Telesila

Fragment Sixty-eight ... even in the house of Hades. SAPPHO

1

2

3

Lethe

Sitalkas

Hermonax

Orion Dead

Charioteer

The Look-out

Odyssey

From the Masque

Hyacinth

1

2

3

4

The bird-choros of Ion

Heliodora

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And Other Poems

by H. D.

Boston and New York

Houghton Mifflin Company

MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

Acknowledgment for the permission to reprint certain poems is due to: Nation, Sphere, Egoist (London); Bookman, Poetry, Double Dealer (New York, Chicago, New Orleans); Transatlantic, Gargoyle (Paris); The Imagist Anthologies and the Miscellany of American Poetry (1922).

Footnote

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The poem Lais has in italics a translation of the Plato epigram in the Greek Anthology. Heliodora has in italics the two Meleager epigrams from the Anthology. In Nossis is the translation of the opening lines of the Garland of Meleager and the poem of Nossis herself in the Greek Anthology. The four Sappho fragments are re-worked freely. The Odyssey is a translation of the opening of the first book. The Ion is a translation of the latter part of the first long choros of the Ion of Euripides.

WASH of cold river

in a glacial land,

Ionian water,

chill, snow-ribbed sand,

drift of rare flowers,

clear, with delicate shell-

like leaf enclosing

frozen lily-leaf,

camellia texture,

colder than a rose;

wind-flower

that keeps the breath

of the north-wind—

these and none other;

intimate thoughts and kind

reach out to share

the treasure of my mind,

intimate hands and dear

draw garden-ward and sea-ward

all the sheer rapture

that I would take

to mould a clear

and frigid statue;

rare, of pure texture,

beautiful space and line,

marble to grace

your inaccessible shrine.

Holy Satyr

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MOST holy Satyr,

like a goat,

with horns and hooves

to match thy coat

of russet brown,

I make leaf-circlets

and a crown of honey-flowers

for thy throat;

where the amber petals

drip to ivory,

I cut and slip

each