Evening
Published in Poem Of The Day
from ridge to ridge,
from flower to flower-
the hepaticas, wide-spread
under the light
grow faint-
the petals reach inward,
the blue tips bend
toward the bluer heart
and the flowers are lost.
The cornel-buds are still white,
but shadows dart
from the cornel-roots-
black creeps from root to root,
each leaf
cuts another leaf on the grass,
shadow seeks shadow,
then both leaf
and leaf-shadow are lost.
About this poem
"Evening" was published in "Sea Garden" (Houghton Mifflin, 1916).
About H.D.
Hilda Doolittle was born on Sept. 10, 1886, in Bethlehem, Penn. A member of the imagist movement, her verse collections include "Red Roses From Bronze" (1932) and "Helen in Egypt" (1961). She died on Sept. 27, 1961.
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