Category Ezra Pound

Kung walkedby the dynastic templeand into the cedar grove,and then out by the lower river,And with him Khieu Tchiand Tian the low speakingAnd “we are unknown,” said Kung,“You will take up charioteering?“Then you will become known,“Or perhaps I should take…

Ha’ we lost the goodliest fere o’ allFor the priests and the gallows tree?Aye lover he was of brawny men,O’ ships and the open sea. When they came wi’ a host to take Our ManHis smile was good to see,“First…

And the days are not full enoughAnd the nights are not full enoughAnd life slips by like a field mouseNot shaking the grass

Sing we for love and idleness,Naught else is worth the having. Though I have been in many a land,There is naught else in living. And I would rather have my sweet,Though rose-leaves die of grieving, Than do high deeds in…

The tree has entered my hands,The sap has ascended my arms,The tree has grown in my breast —Downward,The branches grow out of me, like arms. Tree you are,Moss you are,You are violets with wind above them.A child – so high…

No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,For my surrounding air hath a new lightness;Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitlyAnd left me cloaked as with a…

I had over prepared the event,that much was ominous.With middle-ageing careI had laid out just the right books.I had almost turned down the pages. Beauty is so rare a thing.So few drink of my fountain. So much barren regret,So many…

On the loan exhibit of his paintings at the Tate Gallery. You also, our first great, Had tried all ways; Tested and pried and worked in many fashions, And this much gives me heart to play the game.   Here…

I Hang it all, there can be but one Sordello! But say I want to, say I take your whole bag of tricks,Let in your quirks and tweeks, and say the thing’s an art-form,Your Sordello, and that the modern worldNeeds…

Loquitur: En Bertrans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a  stirrer-up of strife. Eccovi! Judge ye! Have I dug him up again?The scene in at his castle, Altaforte. “Papiols” is his jongleur.“The Leopard,” the device of Richard…