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Dryads haunting the groves - H.D. "Acon"

Nereids who dwell in wet caves - H.D. "Acon"

And Assyrian wine to shatter her fever - H.D. "Acon"

Perishes upon burnt grass - H.D. "Acon"

Play traitor to my soul - H.D. "At Ithaca"

Your scarlet foot so deftly placed - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"

Will save you from the arrow-flight - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"

Break across a blood-stained throat - H.D. "The bird-choros of Ion"

The kiss of your white fire - H.D. "Cassandra"

This bitter power of song - H.D. "Cassandra"

With the trophy of zeal - H.D. "Charioteer"

Will see no visions of after - H.D. "Charioteer"

Bend them to my wish - H.D. "Circe"

Alter them with a touch - H.D. "Circe"

How shall I call you back? - H.D. "Circe"

From the sharp edges of the earth - H.D. "Circe"

Turned each to his own self - H.D. "Circe"

Shut me from the earth - H.D. "Circe"

By an effort comfort our hearts - H.D. "Cities"

Stamped hyacinth-shadows black on the pavement - H.D. "Cities"

No crevice unpacked with the honey - H.D. "Cities"

Find no honey of flowers in this waste - H.D. "Cities"

The city is people with spirits, not ghosts - H.D. "Cities"

The world-edge, pillar for the sky-arch - H.D. "The Cliff Temple"

Caught in the fissures of the jagged cliff - H.D. "The Cliff Temple"

Must I follow you through the stones? - H.D. "The Cliff Temple"

Quicker than my hand-grasp - H.D. "The Cliff Temple"

Could a daemon avenge this hurt - H.D. "The Cliff Temple"

Modelled with straight tool-edge - H.D. "The Contest"

Cypress bent under a weight of snow - H.D. "The Contest"

Melted rare silver for their breadth - H.D. "The Contest"

Sleeps on the stones of Delphi - H.D. "Demeter"

And found only the crackling of ivy - H.D. "Demeter"

Till fire shatter the dark - H.D. "Demeter"

The first buds of the chill narcissus - H.D. "Demeter"

First tasted under Apollo's lips - H.D. "Evadne"

Hyacinth which the wind combs back - H.D. "Evadne"

My hands keep the gold they took - H.D. "Evadne"

Black creeps from root to root - H.D. "Evening"

Both leaf and leaf-shadow are lost - H.D. "Evening"

Beat not the portal down - H.D. "Flute Song"

Silent until my song - H.D. "Flute Song"

Your sweetness is more cruel - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

Honey and salt - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

Fire darted aloft and met fire - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

About to fall shattered with flame spent - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

When love stands with such radiant wings - H.D. "Fragment Forty"

Scorched at the edge to white - H.D. "Fragment Forty-one"

Shameless and still radiant - H.D. "Fragment Forty-one"

Though beauty is slain when I perish - H.D. "Fragment Sixty-eight"

More set with sparks to slay - H.D. "Fragment Sixty-eight"

Shake white light in whiter water - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"

Rift on rift of rose and scattered light - H.D. "Fragment Thirty-six"

Your anger charms me - H.D. "From the Masque"

Ill with dust as you with stain - H.D. "From the Masque"

Your tense, short space of blazing sun - H.D. "From the Masque"

Hard as the descent of hail - H.D. "Garden"

Fruit cannot drop through this thick air - H.D. "Garden"

And blunts the points of pears - H.D. "Garden"

These ripe pears are bitter to the taste - H.D. "The Gift"

Myrtle overran the paths - H.D. "The Gift"

Honey and amber flecked each leaf - H.D. "The Gift"

Remembering past enchantments and past ills - H.D. "Helen"

White ash amid funereal cypresses - H.D. "Helen"

Cut from an awkward block of ship-wood - H.D. "Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4"

Strove for a name - H.D. "Heliodora"

We fled inland with our flocks - H.D. "The Helmsman"

Pastured them in hollows - H.D. "The Helmsman"

And the salt track of the marsh - H.D. "The Helmsman"

Broke hyssop and bramble - H.D. "The Helmsman"

Whom the sea-orchard shelters from the west - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Too late ripened by a desperate sun - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

That struggles through sea-mist - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Twisted by many bafflings - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

Where sea-grass tangles with shore-grass - H.D. "Hermes of the Ways"

And a crown of honey-flowers - H.D. "Holy Satyr"

Answering note for note - H.D. "Holy Satyr"

Are you already beaten by the chase? - H.D. "Huntress"

Lead the pace for the wind on the hills - H.D. "Huntress"

Whirled with a parched cry into the woods - H.D. "Huntress"

Gold apples set with silver apple-leaf - H.D. "Lais"

The work of frosted fruit - H.D. "Lais"

The peach has already withered - H.D. "Late Spring"

Where the slow river meets the tide - H.D. "Leda"

The dying heat of sun and mist - H.D. "Leda"

Old deep memories to mar the bliss - H.D. "Leda"

If the sun could blister my feet - H.D. "The Look-out"

Your feet cut steel on the paths - H.D. "Loss"

But never beauty welded with strength - H.D. "Loss"

Blackened stalks of mint - H.D. "Mid-Day"

Take the moon in your hands - H.D. "The Moon in Your Hands"

The night has cut each from each - H.D. "Night"

But leave the stark core of the rose - H.D. "Night"

To name and watch each flower - H.D. "Nossis"

Flung her name against the dark - H.D. "Nossis"

A shelter wrought of flame and spirit - H.D. "Nossis"

The honey-seeking, golden-banded - H.D. "Orchard"

Was not more fleet than I - H.D. "Orchard"

Spare us from loveliness - H.D. "Orchard"

Poisoned with the rage of song - H.D. "Orion Dead"

The rage of song - H.D. "Orion Dead"

Tear the full flowers - H.D. "Orion Dead"

Petals on the black earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"

Have lost heart for this - H.D. "Orion Dead"

And tear all the roots from the earth - H.D. "Orion Dead"

Lost pace with the winds - H.D. "Orion Dead"

Silver dust lifted from the earth - H.D. "Pear Tree"

No flower ever parted silver - H.D. "Pear Tree"

And ripe fruits in their purple hearts - H.D. "Pear Tree"

No gift within our hands - H.D. "Prayer"

Patterned in fire and letters - H.D. "Prisoners"

Desperate faces at each cell - H.D. "Prisoners"

Burnt to red-purple in the cup - H.D. "Prisoners"

Yet his old glory enchants - H.D. "Projector"

Master of shrines and gateways - H.D. "Projector"

A king of blazing splendour and of gold - H.D. "Projector"

With meagre counterfeit of ancient rite - H.D. "Projector"

Anodyne of balm and fir and myrtle-trees - H.D. "Projector"

That never saw the sun fall in the sea - H.D. "Projector"

Still holds the print of your foot - H.D. "Pursuit"

There is no hope to conjure you - H.D. "Sea Gods"

No whip of tongue to anger you - H.D. "Sea Gods"

Torn by the stress and beat - H.D. "Sea Gods"

No stronger than the strips of sand - H.D. "Sea Gods"

Will break the lie of men's thoughts - H.D. "Sea Gods"

Moss-weed root tangled in sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"

One petal like a shell is broken - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Print a shadow like a thin twig - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Rigid myrrh-bud, camphor-flower - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Drag up colour from the sand - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Iris-flowers above the waves - H.D. "Sea Iris"

Stained among the salt weeds - H.D. "Sea Iris"

But you are shattered in the wind - H.D. "Sea Lily"

Amber hust fluted with gold - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Treasure spilled near the shrub-pines - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

Caught root among wet pebbles - H.D. "Sea Poppies"

A wet rose single on a stem - H.D. "Sea Rose"

Such acrid fragrance hardened in a leaf - H.D. "Sea Rose"

The sea-violet fragile as agate - H.D. "Sea Violet"

The wind among the torn shells - H.D. "Sea Violet"

Let the pears cling to the empty branch - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Your coaxing will only make a bitter fruit - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

Better to taste of frost - H.D. "Sheltered Garden"

But they perished on your cliffs - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

Your lights are but dank shoals - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

Unsheltered, cut with the weight of wind - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

More sweet than the salt stretch of your beach - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

Sparks that unknot the flesh - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

There is no shelter in that headland - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

Spirit between the headlands and the further rocks - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

And the waves can never thrust us back - H.D. "The Shrine ('She Watches Over the Sea')"

And the red seed of the red vervain - H.D. "Simaetha"

White as ash bled of heat - H.D. "Simaetha"

Hail blazing in sheet-lightning - H.D. "Simaetha"

Forked lightning rending the sleet - H.D. "Simaetha"

Baffled in wind and blast - H.D. "Stars Wheel in Purple"

Burden the trees with black drops - H.D. "Storm"

A weighted leaf in the wind - H.D. "Storm"

Soft kisses like bright flowers - H.D. "Telesila"

From amber stones to onyx flecked with violet - H.D. "Thetis"

Set some seal on my bitter heart - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

If I escape your evil heart - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

Have flung my worship before your feet - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

As with crackle of golden resin - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

As in rain of a kingly storm - H.D. "Toward the Piraeus"

Who drove harnessed scorpions before her - H.D. "The Walls Do Not Fall"

With small grace reveal - H.D. "We Two"

Within the tangles of my brain - H.D. "We Two"

Where once I stood alone - H.D. "We Two"

We no longer sleep in the wind - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

And pay tribute with a song - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

Sea-birds that cry discords - H.D. "The Wind Sleepers"

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