Pear Tree

This poem is from H.D.'s Sea Garden published in 1916. represents her passionate protest against romanticism. Another poem filled with the imagery of flowers.

Silver dust
lifted from the earth,
higher than my arms reach,
you have mounted,
O silver,
higher than my arms 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.