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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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• Lovers may come and go,
  there was the memory of blood,
  the low call.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Memories, Blood, May

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• My eye-balls are glass,
  my limbs marble,
  my face fixed
  in its marble mask.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Eye, Glasses, Magic

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.244, New Directions Publishing

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• Maid
  of the luminous grey-eyes,
  Mistress
  of honey and marble implacable white thighs
  and Goddess,
  chaste daughter of Zeus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Daughter, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing

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• There must be real gods
  see, the painted gods
  how fair!

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Real, Fairs

  Hilda Doolittle (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.335, New Directions Publishing

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• Love, why have you sought the horde
  of spearsmen, why the tent
  Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Rivers, Tents

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.134, New Directions Publishing

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• (Those women whom the distaff
  no longer claims
  nor spun cloth)
  driven made,
  mad,
  mad
  by Bacchus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Drinking, Mad, Worship

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• The stallion and his mare,
  unbridled, with arrow-pattern,
  are worked on.
  the blue cloth
  before the door
  of religion and inspiration.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Inspiration, Blue

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.476, 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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• Who dreams of a son,
  save one,
  childless, having no bright
  face to flatter its own,
  who dreams of a son?

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dream, Children, Son

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

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