Pear Tree (by H.D.)

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H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in the 1910s

Pear Tree
[from Sea Garden, 1916]

Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms can reach,
you have mounted.
O silver,
higher than my arms can reach
you front us with great mass;

no flower ever opened
so staunch a white leaf,
no flower ever parted silver
from such rare silver;

O white pear,
your flower-tufts,
thick on the branch,
bring summer and ripe fruits
in their purple hearts. 

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  • 10/5/2009 12:10 PM Jesus Crisis wrote:
    I originally added this poem to the Online Library on 6/19/2009. But I've since changed the date on it to 10/5/2009 - so if anyone searches for Doolittle using the category links to the left, "Pear Tree" will now be listed between "Hermes of the Ways" and "Cities," just as it is in H.D.'s Sea Garden and Collected Poems.
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