Books Should Be Free Loyal Books Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads |
|
Sea Garden By: Unknown (1886-1961) |
---|
![]()
SEA GARDEN The editors and publishers concerned have kindly given me permission to reprint some of the poems in this book which appeared originally in "Poetry" (Chicago), "The Egoist" (London), "The Little Review" (Chicago), "Greenwich Village" (New York), the first Imagist anthology (New York: A. and C. Boni. London: Poetry Bookshop), the second Imagist anthology ("Some Imagist Poets," London: Constable and Co. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.). SEA GARDEN BY H. D. LONDON CONSTABLE AND COMPANY LTD. 1916 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. CHISWICK PRESS: CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. CONTENTS PAGE SEA ROSE 1 THE HELMSMAN 2 THE SHRINE 4 MID DAY 7 PURSUIT 8 THE CONTEST 10 SEA LILY 12 THE WIND SLEEPERS 13 THE GIFT 14 EVENING 17 SHELTERED GARDEN 18 SEA POPPIES 20 LOSS 21 HUNTRESS 23 GARDEN 24 SEA VIOLET 25 THE CLIFF TEMPLE 26 ORCHARD 29 SEA GODS 30 ACON 33 NIGHT 35 PRISONERS 36 STORM 39 SEA IRIS 40 HERMES OF THE WAYS 41 PEAR TREE 43 CITIES 44 THE CITY IS PEOPLED 47 SEA GARDEN SEA ROSE Rose, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet rose single on a stem you are caught in the drift. Stunted, with small leaf, you are flung on the sand, you are lifted in the crisp sand that drives in the wind. Can the spice rose drip such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf? THE HELMSMAN O be swift we have always known you wanted us. We fled inland with our flocks, we pastured them in hollows, cut off from the wind and the salt track of the marsh. We worshipped inland we stepped past wood flowers, we forgot your tang, we brushed wood grass. We wandered from pine hills through oak and scrub oak tangles, we broke hyssop and bramble, we caught flower and new bramble fruit in our hair: we laughed as each branch whipped back, we tore our feet in half buried rocks and knotted roots and acorn cups. We forgot we worshipped, we parted green from green, we sought further thickets, we dipped our ankles through leaf mould and earth, and wood and wood bank enchanted us and the feel of the clefts in the bark, and the slope between tree and tree and a slender path strung field to field and wood to wood and hill to hill and the forest after it. We forgot for a moment tree resin, tree bark, sweat of a torn branch were sweet to the taste. We were enchanted with the fields, the tufts of coarse grass in the shorter grass we loved all this. But now, our boat climbs hesitates drops climbs hesitates crawls back climbs hesitates O be swift we have always known you wanted us... Continue reading book >>
|
eBook Downloads | |
---|---|
ePUB eBook • iBooks for iPhone and iPad • Nook • Sony Reader |
Kindle eBook • Mobi file format for Kindle |
Read eBook • Load eBook in browser |
Text File eBook • Computers • Windows • Mac |
Review this book |
---|