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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Helen In Egypt by H.D Helen herself seems almost ready for this sacrifice -at least, for the immolation of herself before this greatest love of Achilles, his dedication to "his own ship" and the figurehead, "an idol or eidolon... a mermaid, Thetis upon the prow." Did her eyes slant in the old way? was she Greek or Egyptian? had some Phoenician sailor wrought her? was she oak-wood or cedar? had she been cut from an awkward block of ship-wood at the ship-builders, and afterwards riveted there, or had the prow itself been shaped to her mermaid body, curved to her mermaid hair? was there a dash of paint in the beginning, in the garment-fold, did the blue afterwards wear away? did they re-touch her arms, her shoulders? did anyone touch her ever? Had she other zealot and lover, or did he alone worship her? did she wear a girdle of sea-weed or a painted crown? how often did her high breasts meet the spray, how often dive down? American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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H.D	Hans Arp	Harold Pinter
Hart Crane	Hayden Carruth	Helen Dunmore
Henrik Nordbrandt	Henry Lawson	Henry Longfellow
Hermann Hesse	Hilaire Belloc	Ho Xuan Huong
Homer	Howard Nemerov

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