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Poems 1918-21 :

including three portraits and four cantos
Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
  
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Poems 1918-21
  
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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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ODE POUR L'ELECTION DE SON SEPULCHRE
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YEUX GLAUQUES
  
"SIENA MI FE'; DISFECEMI MAREMMA"
  
BRENNBAUM
  
MR NIXON
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ENVOI (1919)
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1920 (MAUBERLEY)
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"THE AGE DEMANDED"
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MEDALLION
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CANTOS
  
THE FOURTH CANTO
  
THE FIFTH CANTO
  
THE SIXTH CANTO
  
THE SEVENTH CANTO

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III. III

THE tea-rose tea-gown, etc.
Supplants the mousseline of Cos,
The pianola "replaces"
Sappho's barbitos.
Christ follows Dionysus,
Phallic and ambrosial
Made way for macerations;
Caliban casts out Ariel.
All things are a flowing,
Sage Heracleitus says;
But a tawdry cheapness
Shall outlast our days.
Even the Christian beauty
Defects — after Samothrace;
We see τὸ καλόν
Decreed in the market place.
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Faun's flesh is not to us,
Nor the saint's vision.
We have the press for wafer;
Franchise for circumcision.
All men, in law, are equals.
Free of Peisistratus,
We choose a knave or an eunuch
To rule over us.
O bright Apollo,
τίν᾿ ἀνδρα, τίν᾿ τ῎ ρωα, τίνα θεὸν,
What god, man, or hero
Shall I place a tin wreath upon!
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