Brief Excerpt from H.D.
This week's featured Saturday Poet is H.D., who was Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961). I love stanza four of her poem, Tribute to the Angels. It is clearly an anti-war poem, told in forceful yet beautiful language. For copyright reasons I can only re-print a couple of lines here. (Apologies) But perhaps you can find the entire poem on line in another location. Let us echo H. D. in all her attractive sincerity.
from Tribute to the Angels
Not in our time, O Lord,
the plowshare for the sword,
not in our time, the knife,
sated with life-blood and life,
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The rest of the poem is not so graphic, but the reader will get the point.
Regards,
TMP
This week's featured Saturday Poet is H.D., who was Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961). I love stanza four of her poem, Tribute to the Angels. It is clearly an anti-war poem, told in forceful yet beautiful language. For copyright reasons I can only re-print a couple of lines here. (Apologies) But perhaps you can find the entire poem on line in another location. Let us echo H. D. in all her attractive sincerity.
from Tribute to the Angels
Not in our time, O Lord,
the plowshare for the sword,
not in our time, the knife,
sated with life-blood and life,
*******************
The rest of the poem is not so graphic, but the reader will get the point.
Regards,
TMP
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