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A Table of Contents for
H.D.'s Collected Poems

As anyone who has opened it knows, this volume of nearly 600 pages has no table of contents. Here's mine. A * indicates a significant note at the back of the book. 
 


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Collected Poems 1925

Sea Garden 1916

Sea Rose 5
The Helmsman 5
The Shrine 7
Mid-Day 10
Pursuit 11
The Contest 12
Sea Lily 14
The Wind Sleepers 15
The Gift 15
Evening 18
Sheltered Garden 19
Sea Poppies 21
Loss 21 *
Huntress 23
Garden 24
Sea Violet 25
The Cliff Temple 26
Orchard 28 *
Sea Gods 29
Acon 31 *
Night 33
Prisoners 33
Sea Iris 36
Hermes of the Ways 37
Pear Tree 39
Cities 39

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The God 1913-1917
(not a published volume, but an arrangement HD devised for Collected Poems to organize uncollecteded poems of the period. The first 4 appeared in Amy Lowell's anthology Some Imagist Poets in 1917.)

The God 45
Adonis 47
Pygmalion 48
Eurydice 51
Oread 55
The Pool 56
Moonrise 56
Orion Dead 56
Hermonax 57
Sitalkas 58
The Tribute 59
Translations

From Iphigeneia in Aulis of Euripides 71
From Hippolytus of Euripides 85
Oddyssey 93
 


Hymen 1921

Fro Bryher and Perdita 101 *
Hymen 101
Demeter 111
Simaetha 115
Thetis
Leda 116
Circe 120
Leda 120
Hippolytus Temporizes 121
Cuckoo Song 122
The Islands 124
At Baia 128
Sea Heroes 129
Fragment 113 (Not honey...) 131 *
Evadne 132
Song 133
Why Have You Sought? 133
White World 134
Phaedra 135
She Contrasts Herself with Hippolyta 136
She Rebukes Hippolyta 138
Egypt 140
Prayer 141
Helios 142
 

Heliodora 1924

Wash of cold river... 148
Holy Satyr 148
Lais 149
Heliodora 151
Helen 154
Nossis 155
Centaur Saong 158
Thetis 159
At Ithaca 163
We two 164
Fragment 36 165
Flute Song 168
After Troy 168
Cassandra 169 *
Epigrams 172
Frament 40 (part of "Eros") 173
Toward the Piraeus 175
At Eleusis 179
Fragment 41 (part of "Amaranth") 181
Telesila 184
Fragment 68 (part of "Envy") 187
Lethe 190
Charioteer 190
The Look-Out 197
Hyacinth 201
The Bird Chorus of Ion 206
 


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Red Roses for Bronze 1931

Red Roses for Bronze 211
In the Rain 215
If You Will Let Me Sing 222
Choros Translations from The Bacchae 223
Chance Meeting 231
Sea Choros from Hecuba 237
Wine Bowl 241
Trance  244
Myrtle Bough 245
Choros Sequence from Morpheus 253
Halcyon 270
Songs from Cyprus 277
Let Zeus Record 281
Whte roe 284
Calliope 286
All Mountains 288
Triplex 291
Birds n Snow 292
Chance 292
When I Am a Cup 294
Sigil 294
Epitaph 299
The Mysteries 300


Trilogy 1944

The Walls do Not Fall 507
Tribute to the Angels 545
The Flowering of the Rod 575 *
 

Uncollected and Unpublished 1912-1944

Epigram (After the Greek) 309
Late Spring 309
Amaranth 310 *
Eros 315 *
Envy 319 *
I Said (1919) 322
Helios and Athene 326
Ariadne 330
The shepherd 335
At Croton 336
Gift 338
Psyche 339
Child Poems 341
Projecto 349
Projector II 353
Other Sea-Cities 359

A Dead Priestess Speaks (HD's title for this sequence of 8 unpublished peoms)

A Dead Priestess Speaks 369 *
Calypso 388 *
In Our town 396 *
Delphi 401 *
Dodona 406 *
Sigil 411 *
Priest 419 *
Master [Magician] 431 *
(continue uncollected)

The Dancer 440 *
The Master 441 *
The Poet 461
Orestes' Theme 466
2 Poems for Christmas 1937 469
Fragment from Temple of the Sun 471
Archer 476 *
Scribe 476 *
Body and Soul 477
Erige Cor Tuum Ad Me In Caelum 479 *
Ancient Wisdom Speaks 482 *
R.A.F. 485
May 1943 492
Christmas 1944 502

 


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