Ezra Pound Poems

En robe de parade. Samain

Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
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For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee

Dark-eyed,
O woman of my dreams,
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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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The thought of what America would be like
If the Classics had a wide circulation
       Troubles my sleep,
The thought of what America,
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The sun rises in south east corner of things
To look on the tall house of the Shin
For they have a daughter named Rafu,
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You came in out of the night
And there were flowers in your hand,
Now you will come out of a confusion of people,
Out of a turmoil of speech about you.
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Kung walked
by the dynastic temple
and into the cedar grove,
and then out by the lower river,
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For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:
Rain; empty river; a voyage,
Fire from frozen cloud, heavy rain in the twilight
Under the cabin roof was one lantern.
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I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
Of Daphne and the laurel bow
And that god-feasting couple old
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Blue mountains to the north of the walls,
White river winding about them;
Here we must make separation
And go out through a thousand miles of dead grass.
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