#MIDDLEBURY
Sitalkas
H.D.
Thou art come at length
More beautiful
Than any cool god
In a chamber under
Lycia’s far coast,
Than any high god
Who touches us not
Here in the seeded grass.
Aye, than Argestes
Scattering the broken leaves.
About this poem
“Sitalkas” was published in “Des Imagistes: An Anthology,” edited by Ezra Pound (A. & C. Boni, 1914).
About H.D.
Hilda Doolittle was born on Sept. 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Penn. She published numerous collections of poetry, including “Sea Garden” (Constable and Company Ltd., 1916) and the book-length “Helen in Egypt” (New Directions, 1961). She died in 1961.
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This poem is in the public domain. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
