Ezra Pound

1885-1972 / Male / American
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The TreeI stood still and was a tree amid the wood, / Knowing the truth of things unseen before; / Of Daphne and the laurel bow
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The Bath TubAs a bathtub lined with white porcelain, / When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, / So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,
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AlbaAs cool as the pale wet leaves / of lily-of-the-valley / She lay beside me in the dawn.
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Ancient MusicWinter is icummen in, / Lhude sing Goddamm, / Raineth drop and staineth slop,
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L’ArtGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, / Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
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The PlungeI would bathe myself in strangeness: / These comforts heaped upon me, smother me! / I burn, I scald so for the new,
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An ImmoralitySing we for love and idleness, / Naught else is worth the having. / Though I have been in many a land,
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The EncounterAll the while they were talking the new morality / Her eyes explored me. / And when I rose to go
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E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son SepulchreFor three years, out of key with his time, / He strove to resuscitate the dead art / Of poetry; to maintain “the sublime”
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Villanelle: The Psychological HourI had over prepared the event, / that much was ominous. / With middle-ageing care
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