Poet
Ezra Pound
A Girl
The tree has entered my hands,
Alba
As cool as the pale wet leaves
Ancient Music
Winter is icummen in,
And the Days Are Not Full Enough
And the days are not full enough
An Immorality
Sing we for love and idleness,
A Pact
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -
A Virginal
No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
Ballad for Gloom
For God, our God is a gallant foe
Ballad of the Goodly Fere
Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all
Before Sleep
The lateral vibrations caress me,
Cantico del Sole
The thought of what America would be like
Canto I: And Then Went Down to the Ship
And then went down to the ship,
Canto XIII: Kung Walked
Kung walked
Canto XLIX: For the Seven Lakes
For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:
Cino
Italian Campagna 1309, the open road
Envoi
Go, dumb-born book,
Epilogue
O chansons foregoing
E.P. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre
For three years, out of key with his time,
Ezra on the Strike
Wal, Thanksgivin' do be comin' round.
Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord
O fan of white silk,
Francesca
You came in out of the night
Further Instructions
Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions.
Grace Before Song
Lord God of heaven that with mercy dight
[Greek]
Be in me as the eternal moods
Historion
No man hath dared to write this thing as yet,
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I)
"Vocat aestus in umbram"
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
In Tempore Senectutis
When I am old
In the Old Age of the Soul
I do not choose to dream; there cometh on me
Invern
Earth's winter cometh
Ione, Dead the Long Year
Empty are the ways,
Ité
Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young
Lament of the Frontier Guard
By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
La Regina Avrillouse
Lady of rich allure,
L'Art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Masks
These tales of old disguisings, are they not
Medallion
Luini in porcelain!
Meditatio
When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs
Nicotine
Hymn to the Dope
Portrait d'une Femme
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
Quies
This is another of our ancient loves.
Salutation
O generation of the thoroughly smug
Sestina: Altaforte
Loquitur: En Bertrans de Born.
Silet
When I behold how black, immortal ink
Song
Love thou thy dream
Song in the Manner of Housman
O woe, woe,
Song of the Bowmen of Shu
Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots
Statement of Being
I am a grave poetic hen
Sub Mare
It is, and is not, I am sane enough,
Taking Leave of a Friend
Blue mountains to the north of the walls,
Tame Cat
It rests me to be among beautiful women
The Bath-Tub
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,
The Encounter
All the while they were talking the new morality
The Fault of It
Some may have blamed us that we cease to speak
The Garden
En robe de parade. Samain
The Garret
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,
The Lake Isle
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
The Logical Conclusion
When earth's last thesis is copied
The Needle
Come, or the stellar tide will slip away.
The Plunge
I would bathe myself in strangeness:
The Return
See, they return; ah, see the tentative
The River-Merchant's Wife
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter
After Li Po
The Seafarer
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text)
The Seeing Eye
The small dogs look at the big dogs;
These Fought In Any Case
These fought in any case,
The Summons
I can not bow to woo thee
The Tree
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Ts'ai Chi'h
The petals fall in the fountain,
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour
I had over prepared the event,
Villonaud for This Yule
Towards the Noel that morte saison
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