Beauty Thou Hast Hurt Me Overmuch
The light is a wound to me.
The soft notes
Feed upon the wound.
[ . . . ]
Richard Aldington's poem "Beauty Thou Hast Hurt Me Overmuch" was published in the 1914 imagist anthology, Des Imagistes. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the links below:
The Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (Charles and Albert Boni edition)