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").

Song

Winter is icummen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slop,and how the wind doth ramm,Sing: Goddamm.Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,An ague..

© Ezra Pound

The Bath-Tub

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion,O my much praised..

© Ezra Pound

Portrait D'Une Femme

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,London has swept about you this score yearsAnd bright ships left you this or that in fee:Ideas, old gossip..

© Ezra Pound

The Garrett

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends,And we have..

© Ezra Pound

Cino

Italian Campagna 1309, the open roadBah! I have sung women in three cities,But it is all the same;And I will sing of the sun.Lips, words, and you..

© Ezra Pound

Further Instructions

Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions.Let us express our envy for the man with a steady job and no worry about the future.You are very..

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The Seeing Eye

The small dogs look at the big dogs;They observe unwieldy dimensionsAnd curious imperfections of odor.Here is the formal male group:The young men..

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The Plunge

I would bathe myself in strangeness:These comforts heaped upon me, smother me!I burn, I scald so for the new,New friends, new faces,Places!Oh to be..

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The Needle

Come, or the stellar tide will slip away.Eastward avoid the hour of its decline,Now! for the needle trembles in my soul!Here have we had the vantage..

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Salutation

O generation of the thoroughly smug and thoroughly uncomfortable,I have seen fishermen picnicking in the sun,I have seen them with untidy..

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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..

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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.

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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..

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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..

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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..

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L'Art

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

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Masks

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

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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..

© Ezra Pound