Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

The Return

See, they return; ah, see the tentativeMovements, and the slow feet,The trouble in the pace and the uncertainWavering!See, they return, one by..

© Ezra Pound

The Encounter

All the while they were talking the new moralityHer eyes explored me.And when I rose to goHer fingers were like the tissueOf a Japanese paper napkin.

© Ezra Pound

Au Jardin

O you away high there,you that leanFrom amber lattices upon the cobalt night,I am below amid the pine trees,Amid the little pine trees, hear me!'The..

© Ezra Pound

In The Old Age Of The Soul

I do not choose to dream; there cometh on meSome strange old lust for deeds.As to the nerveless hand of some old warriorThe sword-hilt or the..

© Ezra Pound

Taking Leave Of A Friend

Blue mountains to the north of the walls,White river winding about them;Here we must make separationAnd go out through a thousand miles of dead..

© Ezra Pound

L'Art

Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

© Ezra Pound

Masks

These tales of old disguisings, are they notStrange myths of souls that found themselves amongUnwonted folk that spake an hostile tongue,Some soul..

© Ezra Pound

These Fought In Any Case

These fought in any case,and some believingpro domo, in any case .....Died some, pro patria,walked eye-deep in hellbelieving in old men's lies, then..

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A Ballad Of The Mulberry Road

The sun rises in south east corner of thingsTo look on the tall house of the ShinFor they have a daughter named Rafu,(pretty girl)She made the name..

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Lament Of The Frontier Guard

By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,Lonely from the beginning of time until now!Trees fall, the grass goes yellow with autumn.I climb the..

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The Tree

I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,Knowing the truth of things unseen before;Of Daphne and the laurel bowAnd that god-feasting couple oldthat..

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Canto Xlix: For The Seven Lakes

For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:Rain; empty river; a voyage,Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilightUnder the cabin roof..

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Canto Xiii: Kung Walked

Kung walkedby the dynastic templeand into the cedar grove,and then out by the lower river,And with him Khieu Tchiand Tian the low speakingAnd..

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Francesca

You came in out of the nightAnd there were flowers in your hand,Now you will come out of a confusion of people,Out of a turmoil of speech about you.I..

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Meditatio

When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogsI am compelled to concludeThat man is the superior animal.When I consider the curious habits of..

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Cantico Del Sole

The thought of what America would be likeIf the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep,The thought of what America,The thought of..

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Be in me as the eternal moodsof the bleak wind, and notAs transient things are—gaiety of flowers.Have me in the strong lonelinessof sunless cliffsAnd..

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Dance Figure

For the Marriage in Cana of GalileeDark-eyed,O woman of my dreams,Ivory sandalled,There is none like thee among the dancers,None with swift feet.I..

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The Garden

En robe de parade. SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wallShe walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,And she is dying..

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The Seafarer

(From the early Anglo-Saxon text)May I for my own self song's truth reckon,Journey's jargon, how I in harsh daysHardship endured oft.Bitter..

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Canto 13

Kung walkedby the dynastic templeand into the cedar grove,and then out by the lower river,And with him Khieu Tchiand Tian the low speakingAnd "we are..

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Ballad Of The Goodly Fere

Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' allFor the priests and the gallows tree?Aye lover he was of brawny men,O' ships and the open sea.When they came wi'..

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Tame Cat

It rests me to be among beautiful womenWhy should one always lie about such matters?I repeat:It rests me to converse with beautiful womenEven though..

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A Song Of The Degrees

IRest me with Chinese colours,For I think the glass is evil.IIThe wind moves above the wheat-With a silver crashing,A thin war of metal.I have known..

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Canto 49

For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:Rain; empty river; a voyage,Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilightUnder the cabin roof..

© Ezra Pound