by Hilda Doolittle (1886 - 1961)
White World See base text
Language: English
The whole white world is ours,
and the world, purple with rose-bays,
bays, bush on bush,
group, thicket, hedge and tree,
dark islands in a sea
of gray-green olive or wild white-olive,
cut with the sudden cypress shafts,
in clusters, two or three,
or with one slender, single cypress-tree.
Slid from the hill,
as crumbling snow-peaks slide,
citron on citron fill
the valley, and delight
waits till our spirits tire
of forest, grove and bush
and purple flower of the laurel-tree.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Libby Larsen (b. 1950), "White World", first performed 1994, stanzas 1-2 [ voice, violoncello, and piano ], from Belovèd, thou hast brought me many flowers, no. 4
Text Authorship:
- by Hilda Doolittle (1886 - 1961), from Collected Poems 1912-1944
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This text was added to the website: 2007-12-13
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Word count: 121