Ezra Pound Poems

Empty are the ways,
Empty are the ways of this land
And the flowers
Bend over with heavy heads.
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Loquitur: En Bertrans de Born.
Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a
stirrer-up of strife.
Eccovi!
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When I am old
I will not have you look apart
From me, into the cold,
Friend of my heart,
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For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old scene.Wrong from the start--
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When I behold how black, immortal ink
Drips from my deathless pen - ah, well-away!
Why should we stop at all for what I think?
There is enough in what I chance to say.
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Here we are, picking the first fern-shoots
And saying: When shall we get back to our country?
Here we are because we have the Ken-nin for our foemen,
We have no comfort because of these Mongols.
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I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
Let the wind speak
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Go, dumb-born book,
Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes:
Hadst thou but song
As thou hast subjects known,
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SCENE: 'En ce bourdel ou tenons nostre estat.'

It being remembered that there were six of us with Master
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Go, my songs, seek your praise from the young
and from the intolerant,
Move among the lovers of perfection alone.
Seek ever to stand in the hard Sophoclean light
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