Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LEUCADIAM ARTEMIS, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the intolerable rhythm Last Line: And the luminous trees. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Arcadians; Artemis; Bible; Mythology - Classical; Trees; Arcadia | ||||||||
I heard the intolerable rhythm and sound of prayer, so I have hidden where no mortals are, no sycophant of priest to mar my ease climbing impassable stairs of rock and forest shale and barrier of trees. Someone will come after I shun this place, and set a circle, blunt end up, of stones flattened and hewn, and pile an altar; but I shall have gone further, toward loftier barrier, mightier trees. Bear, wolf and pard I will entice with me, that eyes' black fire or yellow, flatter, conjure, feed desire, conspire, lead me yet further to some loftier shelf, untrodden. Unappeased, I will disport at ease and wait; I will engage in contretemps with earth how we may best efface from Elaea and all stony Peloponnese, from wild Arcadia, from the Isthmian straits, from Thrace and Locrain hills, (as isles are sunk in overwhelming seas), all Grecian cities with the wild arbutus and the luminous trees. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ARCADIE by JOSEPHINE AUGUSTA CASS DE HISTRICE. EX CLAUDIANO by CLAUDIAN IN ARCADIE by HELEN MERRILL EGERTON THE LOST LAND by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON AND I TOO IN ARCADIA; SUGGESTED BY A CELEBRATED PICTURE OF POUSSIN by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS THE SHIPS OF ARCADY by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE IN ARCADIA by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE SECRET OF ARCADY by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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