Modernist Women Poets by Robert Hass
Author:Robert Hass [Hass, Robert; Ebenkamp, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619023826
Publisher: Counterpoint
Song
You are as gold
as the half-ripe grain
that merges to gold again,
as white as the white rain
that beats through
the half-opened flowers
of the great flower tufts
thick on the black limbs
of an Illyrian apple bough.
Can honey distill such fragrance
as your bright hair—
for your face is as fair as rain,
yet as rain that lies clear
on white honey-comb,
lends radiance to the white wax,
so your hair on your brow
casts light for a shadow.
Helen
All Greece hates
the still eyes in the white face,
the luster as of olives
where she stands,
and the white hands.
All Greece reviles
the wan face when she smiles,
hating it deeper still
when it grows wan and white,
remembering past enchantments
and past ills.
Greece sees unmoved,
God’s daughter, born of love,
the beauty of cool feet
and slenderest knees,
could love indeed the maid,
only if she were laid,
white ash amid funereal cypresses.
Download
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.
Ancient, Classical & Medieval | Anthologies |
British & Irish | Japanese & Haiku |
Love Poems | Regional & Cultural |
Themes & Styles | United States |
Women Authors |
The Universe of Us by Lang Leav(14355)
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur(13679)
Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna(8137)
Whiskey Words & a Shovel II by r.h. Sin(7475)
Love Her Wild by Atticus(7222)
Smoke & Mirrors by Michael Faudet(5505)
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi(4581)
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace(4501)
Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav(4351)
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur(4222)
Memories by Lang Leav(4166)
Good morning to Goodnight by Eleni Kaur(3802)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson(3704)
Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose(3689)
Algedonic by r.h. Sin(3494)
Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell(3381)
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda(3357)
HER II by Pierre Alex Jeanty(3165)
Stuff I've Been Feeling Lately by Alicia Cook(3051)