Ezra Pound Poems

O strange face there in the glass!
O ribald company, O saintly host,
O sorrow-swept my fool,
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Did I 'ear it 'arf in a doze:
The Co-ops was a goin' somewhere,
Did I 'ear it while pickin' 'ops;
How they better start takin' care,
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Be in me as the eternal moods
of the bleak wind, and'not
As transient things are
gaiety of flowers.
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At the table beyond us
With her little suede slippers off,
With her white-stocking'd feet
Carefully kept from the floor by a napkin,
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Golden rose the house, in the portal I saw
thee, a marvel, carven in subtle stuff, a
portent. Life died down in the lamp and flickered,
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Let some new lying ass,
Who knows not what is or was,
Talk economics,
Pay for his witless noise,
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For a moment she rested against me
Like a swallow half blown to the wall,
And they talk of Swinburne's women,
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Fu I

Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill,
Alas, he died of alcohol.
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Beautiful, tragical faces—
Ye that were whole, and are so sunken;
And, O ye vile, ye that might have been loved,
That are so sodden and drunken,
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The baby new to earth and sky
Has never until now
Unto himself the question put
Or asked us if the cow
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