Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARD THE PIRAEUS: 3, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What had you done Last Line: That I am wise. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Lies; Man-woman Relationships; Men; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
WHAT had you done had you been true, I can not think, I may not know. What could we do were I not wise, what play invent, what joy devise? What could we do if you were great? (Yet were you lost, who were there, then, to circumvent the tricks of men?) What can we do, for curious lies have filled your heart, and in my eyes sorrow has writ that I am wise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS |
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