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SEA GODS: 2 by HILDA DOOLITTLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: BUT WE BRING VIOLETS
Last Line: OF YOUR OWN WHITE SURF.
Subject(s): BIBLE; POETRY & POETS; SEA; OCEAN;

But we bring violets,
great masses -- single, sweet,
wood-violets, stream-violets,
violets from a wet marsh.
Violets in clumps from hills,
tufts with earth at the roots,
violets tugged from rocks,
blue violets, moss, cliff, river-violets.
Yellow violets' gold,
burnt with a rare tint --
violets like red ash
among tufts of grass.
We bring deep-purple
bird-foot violets.
We bring the hyacinth-violet,
sweet, bare, chill to the touch --
and violets whiter than the in-rush
of your own white surf.



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