Priapus
Keeper-of-Orchards
I saw the first pear
As it fell.
The honey-seeking, golden-banded,
The yellow swarm
Was not more fleet than I,
(Spare us from loveliness!)
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H.D.'s poem "Priapus: Keeper-of-Orchards" was published in the 1914 imagist anthology, Des Imagistes. To read this poem in full in a digitized copy of this publication, follow the links below:
The Blue Mountain Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (The Glebe)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: Albert and Charles Boni, NY)
The Modernist Journals Project (Publisher: The Poetry Bookshop, London)