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Born in October 30, 1885 / Died in November 1, 1972 / United States / English

Poems by Ezra Pound

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Alf’s Eleventh Bit

... My great press cleaves the guts of men, ...

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from Canto CXV

...     where the salt hay whispers to tide&rsquo ...

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Canto XXXVI

... “which explains, perhaps, the delay in condemning him&rdquo ...

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Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic

... He was uncertain why he should try to feel like anything else, ...

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And Thus In Nineveh

... ‘It is not, Raana, that my song rings highest ...

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The Beautiful Toilet (Pound's Translation of the original Chinese poem by Mei Sheng)

... And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth ...

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Ladies

... Agathas Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old days, ...

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Canto LXXXI

...     it is La Rouchefoucauld and de Maintenon audibly ...

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The Flame

... Am solved and bound in, through aught here on earth, ...

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Poem By The Bridge At Ten-Shin

... waters. Petals are on the gone waters and on the going, ...

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Moeurs Contemporaines

... And that the friend of the second daughter was undergoing a novel, ...

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The Alchemist

... Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their ...

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Homage To Sextus Propertius - III

... I shall be prey to lamentations worse than a nocturnal assailant ...

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Ancora

... We who have seen even Artemis a-binding her sandals, ...

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Dieu! Qu'il La Fait

... From here to there to the sea's border, ...