To-Em-Meps ‘The Unmoving Cloud’ (Ezra Pound Poems)
IThe clouds have gathered, and gathered, and the rain falls and falls,The eight ply of the heavens are all folded ...
Ezra Pound Poems (146 Poems)
Apparuit (Ezra Pound Poems)
Golden rose the house, in the portal I sawthee, a marvel, carven in subtle stuff, aportent. Life died down in ...
The Logical Conclusion (Ezra Pound Poems)
When earth's last thesis is copiedFrom the theses that went before,When idea from fact has departedAnd bare-boned factlets shall bore,When ...
The Study In Aesthetics (Ezra Pound Poems)
The very small children in patched clothing,Being smitten with an unusual wisdom,Stopped in their play as she passed themAnd cried ...
Fish And Shadow (Ezra Pound Poems)
The salmon-trout drifts in the stream,The soul of the salmon-trout floats over the streamLike a little wafer of light.The salmon ...
Ole Kate (Ezra Pound Poems)
When I was only a youngster,Sing: toodle doodlede ootlOle Kate would git her 'arf a pintAnd wouldn't' giv' a damn ...
The Charge Of The Bread Brigade (Ezra Pound Poems)
Half a loaf, half a loaf,Half a loaf? Urn-hum?Down through the vale of gloomSlouched the ten million,Onward th' 'ungry blokes,Crackin' ...
Middle-Aged (Ezra Pound Poems)
'Tis but a vague, invarious delightAs gold that rains about some buried king.As the fine flakes,When tourists frolickingStamp on his ...
And Thus In Nineveh (Ezra Pound Poems)
Aye! I am a poet and upon my tombShall maidens scatter rose leavesAnd men myrtles, ere the nightSlays day with ...
Song Of The Six Hundred M.P.’S (Ezra Pound Poems)
'We are 'ere met togetherin this momentous hower,Ter lick th' bankers' dirty bootsan' keep the Bank in power.'We are 'ere ...
Yeux Glauques (Ezra Pound Poems)
Gladstone was still respected,When John Ruskin produced'King's Treasuries'; SwinburneAnd Rossetti still abused.Foetid Buchanan lifted up his voiceWhen that faun's head ...
The Condolence (Ezra Pound Poems)
O my fellow sufferers, songs of my youth,A lot of asses praise you because you are 'virile',We, you, I! We ...
Rome (Ezra Pound Poems)
FROM THE FRENCH OF JOACHIM DU BELLAYO thou new comer who seek'st Rome in RomeAnd find'st in Rome no thing ...
Sennin Poem By Kakuhaku (Ezra Pound Poems)
The red and green kingfishersflash between the orchids and clover,One bird casts its gleam on another.Green vines hang through the ...
[Greek] (Ezra Pound Poems)
Be in me as the eternal moods of the bleak wind, and not As transient ...
Dieu! Qu’il La Fait (Ezra Pound Poems)
FROM CHARLES D'ORLEANSGod! that mad'st her well regard her,How she is so fair and bonny;For the great charms that are ...
Paracelsus In Excelsis (Ezra Pound Poems)
'Being no longer human, why should IPretend humanity or don the frail attire?Men have I known and men, but never ...
N. Y. (Ezra Pound Poems)
My City, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender,Listen! Listen to me, and I will breathe into thee a soul.Delicately upon ...
To Formianus’ Young Lady Friend (Ezra Pound Poems)
After Valerius CatullusAll Hail! young lady with a noseby no means too small,With a foot unbeautiful,and with eyes that are ...
The Spring (Ezra Pound Poems)
Cydonian Spring with her attendant train,Maelids and water-girls,Stepping beneath a boisterous wind from Thrace,Throughout this sylvan placeSpreads the bright tips,And ...
Piccadilly (Ezra Pound Poems)
Beautiful, tragical faces-Ye that were whole, and are so sunken;And, O ye vile, ye that might have been loved,That are ...
The Beautiful Toilet (Ezra Pound Poems)
Blue, blue is the grass about the riverAnd the willows have overfilled the close garden.And within, the mistress, in the ...
Leave-Taking Near Shoku (Ezra Pound Poems)
They say the roads of Sanso are steep,Sheer as the mountains.The walls rise in a man's face,Clouds grow out of ...
Erat Hora (Ezra Pound Poems)
'Thank you, whatever comes.' And then she turnedAnd, as the ray of sun on hanging flowersFades when the wind hath ...
The Tea Shop (Ezra Pound Poems)
The girl in the tea shopIs not so beautiful as she was,The August has worn against her.She does not get ...
In Exitum Cuiusdam (Ezra Pound Poems)
On a certain one's departure'Time's bitter flood'! Oh, that's all very well,But where's the old friend hasn't fallen off,Or slacked ...
Simulacra (Ezra Pound Poems)
Why does the horse-faced lady of just the unmentionable ageWalk down Longacre reciting Swinburne to herself, inaudibly?Why does the small ...
Arides (Ezra Pound Poems)
The bashful AridesHas married an ugly wife,He was bored with his manner of life,Indifferent and discouraged he thought he might ...
Dum Capitolium Scandet (Ezra Pound Poems)
How many will come after mesinging as well as I sing, none better;Telling the heart of their truthas I have ...
Brennbaum (Ezra Pound Poems)
The sky-like limpid eyes,The circular infant's face,The stiffness from spats to collarNever relaxing into grace;The heavy memories of Horeb, Sinai ...