Sea Lily by H. D.

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend August 21, 2016   Sea Lily   H. D.

Reed, slashed and torn but doubly rich— such great heads as yours drift upon temple-steps, but you are shattered in the wind.   Myrtle-bark is flecked from you, scales are dashed from your stem, sand cuts your petal, furrows it with hard edge, like flint on a bright stone.   Yet though the whole wind slash at your bark, you are lifted up, aye—though it hiss to cover you with froth.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “Sea Lily” was published in Sea Garden (Constable and Company, Ltd, 1916).   Hilda Doolittle was born on September 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Her collections of poetry include Red Roses for Bronze (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931) and Helen in Egypt (New Directions, 1961). She died in 1961.   Photo credit: Perdita Schaffner/New Directions Poetry by H. D.   Collected Poems 1912-1944 (New Directions, 1986) "A Grave" by Marianne Moore "A Man Said to the Universe" by Stephen Crane "Meeting and Passing" by Robert Frost Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038