[lbo-talk] Ezra Pound on The Left and the DP

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Feb 7 10:20:51 PST 2004


EPITAPH

Leucis, who intended a Grand Passion,

Ends with a willingness-to-oblige.

ARIDES

The bashful Arides

Has married an ugly wife,

He was bored with his manner of life,

Indifferent and discouraged he thought he might as

Well do this as anything.

Saying within his heart, "I am no use to myself,

"Let her, if she wants me, take me."

He went to his doom.

SOCIETY

The family position was waning,

And on this account the little Aurelia,

Who had laughed on eighteen summers,

Now bears the palsied contact of Phidippus.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES

When the Taihaitian princess

Heard that he had decided,

She rushed out into the sunlight and

swarmed up a cocoanut palm tree,

But he returned to this island

And wrote ninety Petrarchan sonnets.

SHOP GIRL

For a moment she rested against me

Like a swallow half blown to the wall,

And they talk of Swinburne's women,

And the shepherdess meeting with Guido.

And the harlots of Baudelaire.

PAPYRUS

SPRING . . . . . . . . .

Too long . . . . . . . .

Gongula . . . . . . . . .

(All poems to be found in _Personae: The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound_)



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