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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA IRIS: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poet's Biography
First Line: Do the murex-fishers
Last Line: Stained among the salt weeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Iris (flower)
First Line: Do the murex-fishers
Last Line: Stained among the salt weeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Iris (flower)
Do the murex-fishers
drench you as they pass?
Do your roots drag up colour
from the sand?
Have they slipped gold under you --
rivets of gold?
Band of iris-flowers
above the waves,
you are painted blue,
painted like a fresh prow
stained among the salt weeds.
Other Poems of Interest...
THE IRIS, THAT SEXUAL FLOWER by CHASE TWICHELL
THE BLUE-FLAG IN THE BOG by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
IN A GARDEN by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON
IRIS by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY
IRISES by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY
MYSTERY: 2 by ANNE MILLAY BREMER
SEA IRIS: 1 by HILDA DOOLITTLE
COURT LADY STANDING UNDER CHERRY TREE by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER
THE BEDS OF FLEUR-DE-LYS by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN