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Poems 1918-21 :

including three portraits and four cantos
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
  
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CONTENTS

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HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS
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LANGUE D'OC
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MOEURS CONTEMPORAINES
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HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY
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CANTOS

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BENEATH the sagging roof
The stylist has taken shelter,
Unpaid, uncelebrated,
At last from the world's welter
Nature receives him,
With a placid and uneducated mistress
He exercises his talents
And the soil meets his distress.
The haven from sophistications and contentions
Leaks through its thatch;
He offers succulent cooking;
The door has a creaking latch.
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