Beauty Thou Hast Hurt Me Overmuch
The light is a wound to me.
The soft notes
Feed upon the wound.
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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)
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The Rose
I remember a day when I stood on the sea shore at
Nice, holding a scarlet rose in my hands.
The calm sea, caressed by the sun, was brightly
garmented in blue, veiled in gold, and violet, verging
on silver.
Gently the waves lapped the shore, and scatter-
ing into pearls, emeralds and opals, hastened towards
my feet with a monotonous, rhythmical sound, like the
prolonged note of a single harp-string.
[ . . . ]
John Cournos' poem "The Rose," which was inspired by K. Tetmaier 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)
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Hermes of the Ways
I
The hard sand breaks,
And the grains of it
Are clear as wine.
Far off over the leagues of it,
The wind,
Playing on the wide shore,
Piles little ridges,
And the great waves
Break over it.
But more than the many-foamed ways
Of the sea,
I know him
Of the triple path-ways,
Hermes,
Who awaiteth.
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H.D.'s "Hermes of the Ways" 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)
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"After Ch'u Yuan"
I will get me to the wood
Where the gods walked garlanded in wisteria,
By the silver-blue flood move others with ivory cars.
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Ezra Pound's poem "After Ch'u Yuan" was published in the 1914 imagist anthology, Des Imagistes. To read this poem in full in digitized versions of this publication, follow the links below:
Archive.org (Des Imagistes, published by Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1914)
Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
Modernist Journals Project (Des Imagistes, published by Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1914)
Modernist Journals Project (Des Imagistes, published by The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1914)
Argyria
O you,
O you most fair,
Swayer of reeds, whisperer
Among the flowering rushes,
You have hidden your hands
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Richard Aldington's poem "Argyria" was published in the 1914 imagist anthology, Des Imagistes. To read this poem in full in digitized versions of this publication, follow the links below:
Archive.org (Des Imagistes, published by Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1914)
Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
Modernist Journals Project (Des Imagistes, published by Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1914)
Modernist Journals Project (Des Imagistes, published by The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1914)
Postlude
Now that I have cooled to you
Let there be gold of tarnished masonry,
Temples soothed by the sun to ruin
That sleep utterly.
Give me hand for the dances,
Ripples at Philse, in and out,
And lips, my Lesbian,
Wall flowers that once were flame.
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William Carlos Williams poem "Interlude" was published in the 1914 Des Imagistes anthology. To read this poem in full in a digitized version of this publication, follow the links below:
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The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop, London)
Priapus
Keeper-of-Orchards
I saw the first pear
As it fell.
The honey-seeking, golden-banded,
The yellow swarm
Was not more fleet than I,
(Spare us from loveliness!)
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H.D.'s poem "Priapus: Keeper-of-Orchards" was published in the 1914 imagist anthology, Des Imagistes. To read this poem in full in a digitized copy of this publication, follow the links below:
The Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop, London)
Nocturnes
I
Thy feet,
That are like little, silver birds,
Thou hast set upon pleasant ways;
Therefore I will follow thee,
Thou Dove of the Golden Eyes,
Upon any path will I follow thee,
For the light of thy beauty
Shines before me like a torch.
II
Thy feet are white
Upon the foam of the sea;
Hold me fast, thou bright Swan,
Lest I stumble,
And into deep waters.
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Skipwith Cannell's poem sequence "Nocturnes" was published in the 1914 Des Imagistes anthology. To read the sequence in full in digitized versions of this publication, follow the links below:
The Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop, London)
Δ'ΩΡΙΑ
Be in me as the eternal moods
of the bleak wind, and not
As transient things are—
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Ezra Pound's poem "Δ'ΩΡΙΑ" 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 (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop, London)
Choricos
The ancient songs
Pass deathward mournfully.
Cold lips that sing no more, and withered wreaths,
Regretful eyes, and drooping breasts and wings—
Symbols of ancient songs
Mournfully passing
Down to the great white surges,
Watched of none
Save the frail sea-birds
And the lithe pale girls,
Daughters of Okeanus.
And the songs pass
From the green land
Which lies upon the waves as a leaf
On the flowers of hyacinth;
And they pass from the waters,
The manifold winds and the dim moon,
And they come,
Silently winging through soft Kimmerian dusk,
To the quiet level lands
That she keeps for us all,
That she wrought for us all for sleep
In the silver days of the earth's dawning—
Proserpina, daughter of Zeus.
And we turn from the Kuprian's breasts,
And we turn from thee,
Phoibos Apollon,
And we turn from the music of old
And the hills that we loved and the meads,
And we turn from the fiery day,
And the lips that were over sweet;
For silently
Brushing the fields with red-shod feet,
With purple robe
Searing the flowers as with a sudden flame,
Death,
Thou hast come upon us.
And of all the ancient songs
Passing to the swallow-blue halls
By the dark streams of Persephone,
This only remains:
That we turn to thee,
Death,
That we turn to thee, singing
One last song.
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Richard Aldington's poem "Choricos" was published in the 1914 imagist anthology, Des Imagistes. To read this poem in full in digitized versions of this publication, follow the links below:
Archive.org (Des Imagistes, published by Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1914)
Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
Modernist Journals Project (Des Imagistes, published by Albert and Charles Boni, New York, 1914)
Modernist Journals Project (Des Imagistes, published by The Poetry Bookshop, London, 1914)