 H.D. and Bryher spent the duration of World War II in London . During this time , H.D. wrote The Gift , a memoir of her childhood and family life in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania , which reflects on people and events in her background that helped shape her as a writer . The Gift was eventually published in 1960 and 1982 . She also wrote Trilogy , published as The Walls do not Fall ( 1944 ) , Tribute to the Angels ( 1945 ) and The Flowering of the Rod ( 1946 ) . The opening lines of The Walls do not Fall clearly and immediately signal H.D. ' s break with her earlier work : 
