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    Sea Garden
    Sea Garden
    Sea Garden
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    Sea Garden

    By H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
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    • 3/5
      In this early and slim volume, you can see what will come in HD's later imagist writing. Here too often the diction of "high poetry" of the 19th Century appears. And too many poems are apostrophes to flowers and objects. But the irregular verse is free, the imagery true, and the language moving towards the modern.
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      This is the best document from the Imagist movement I've ever read.

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    Sea Garden - H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

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    Title: Sea Garden

    Author: Hilda Doolittle

    Release Date: May 2, 2009 [EBook #28665]

    Language: English

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    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

    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

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