Ts’ai Chi’h (Ezra Pound Poems)
The petals fall in the fountain, the orange-coloured rose-leaves, Their ochre clings to the stone. (Ezra Pound)
Ezra Pound Poems (146 Poems)
Invern (Ezra Pound Poems)
Earth's winter cometh And I being part of all And sith the spirit of all moveth in me I must ...
Song (Ezra Pound Poems)
Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, and how the wind doth ramm, Sing: Goddamm. ...
Ballad of the Goodly Fere (Ezra Pound Poems)
Simon Zelotes speaking after the Crucifixion. Fere=Mate, Companion. Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all For the priests and ...
Song in the Manner of Housman (Ezra Pound Poems)
O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as ...
Silet (Ezra Pound Poems)
When I behold how black, immortal ink Drips from my deathless pen - ah, well-away! Why should we stop at ...
Sub Mare (Ezra Pound Poems)
It is, and is not, I am sane enough, Since you have come this place has hovered round me, This ...
An Immorality (Ezra Pound Poems)
Sing we for love and idleness, Naught else is worth the having. Though I have been in many a land, ...
Alba (Ezra Pound Poems)
As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valley She lay beside me in the dawn. (Ezra Pound)
The Plunge (Ezra Pound Poems)
I would bathe myself in strangeness: These comforts heaped upon me, smother me! I burn, I scald so for the ...
The Lake Isle (Ezra Pound Poems)
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, ...
In Tempore Senectutis (Ezra Pound Poems)
When I am old I will not have you look apart From me, into the cold, Friend of my heart, ...
Before Sleep (Ezra Pound Poems)
The lateral vibrations caress me, They leap and caress me, They work pathetically in my favour, They seek my financial ...
The Garret (Ezra Pound Poems)
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich ...
Ballad for Gloom (Ezra Pound Poems)
For God, our God is a gallant foe That playeth behind the veil. I have loved my God as a ...
These Fought in Any Case (Ezra Pound Poems)
These fought in any case, and some believing pro domo, in any case ..... Died some, pro patria, walked eye-deep ...
Quies (Ezra Pound Poems)
This is another of our ancient loves. Pass and be silent, Rullus, for the day Hath lacked a something since ...
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (Ezra Pound Poems)
After Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played at the front gate, pulling ...
Salutation (Ezra Pound Poems)
O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable, I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun, I have seen ...
In the Old Age of the Soul (Ezra Pound Poems)
I do not choose to dream; there cometh on me Some strange old lust for deeds. As to the nerveless ...
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour (Ezra Pound Poems)
I had over prepared the event, that much was ominous. With middle-ageing care I had laid out just the right ...
La Regina Avrillouse (Ezra Pound Poems)
Lady of rich allure, Queen of the spring's embrace, Your arms are long like boughs of ash, Mid laugh-broken streams, ...
The Encounter (Ezra Pound Poems)
All the while they were talking the new morality Her eyes explored me. And when I rose to go Her ...
The Tree (Ezra Pound Poems)
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood, Knowing the truth of things unseen before; Of Daphne and ...
Tame Cat (Ezra Pound Poems)
It rests me to be among beautiful women Why should one always lie about such matters? I repeat: It rests ...
Further Instructions (Ezra Pound Poems)
Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions. Let us express our envy for the man with a steady ...