Poet

Ezra Pound

72 poems in the collection

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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