<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410177" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">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.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did her eyes slant in the old way?<br>was she Greek or Egyptian?<br>had some Phoenician sailor wrought her?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">was she oak-wood or cedar?<br>had she been cut from an awkward block<br>of ship-wood at the ship-builders,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and afterwards riveted there,<br>or had the prow itself been shaped<br>to her mermaid body,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">curved to her mermaid hair?<br>was there a dash of paint<br>in the beginning, in the garment-fold,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">did the blue afterwards wear away?<br>did they re-touch her arms, her shoulders?<br>did anyone touch her ever?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had she other zealot and lover,<br>or did he alone worship her?<br>did she wear a girdle of sea-weed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or a painted crown? how often<br>did her high breasts meet the spray,<br>how often dive down?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hilda+Doolittle">Hilda Doolittle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410177" data-title="Helen in Egypt, Eidolon, Book III: 4 de Hilda Doolittle" data-description="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.' Di..."></div> </div> </div>

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