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Ezra Pound's Poetry, by first line

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  • Tame Cat
    It rests me to be among beautiful women
    Why should one always lie about such matters?
    7 lines
  • Cantico del Sole
    The thought of what America would be like
    If the Classics had a wide circulation
    16 lines
  • The Garden
    En robe de parade. Samain
    Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
    14 lines
  • An Immorality
    Sing we for love and idleness,
    Naught else is worth the having.
    8 lines
  • Meditatio
    When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs
    I am compelled to conclude
    5 lines
  • Salutation
    O generation of the thoroughly smug
          and thoroughly uncomfortable,
    10 lines
  • L'Art
    Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
    Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
    2 lines
  • A Pact
    I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -
    I have detested you long enough.
    9 lines, 2 comments
  • A Virginal
    No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
    I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,
    14 lines
  • The River-Merchant's Wife
    While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
    I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
    29 lines, 1 comment
  • The Needle
    Come, or the stellar tide will slip away.
    Eastward avoid the hour of its decline,
    15 lines
  • Quies
    This is another of our ancient loves.
    Pass and be silent, Rullus, for the day
    4 lines
  • A Girl
    The tree has entered my hands,
    The sap has ascended my arms,
    10 lines, 10 comments
  • Further Instructions
    Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions.
    Let us express our envy for the man with a steady job and no worry about the future.
    19 lines
  • The Lake Isle
    O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
    Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,
    17 lines
  • Lament of the Frontier Guard
    By the North Gate, the wind blows full of sand,
    Lonely from the beginning of time until now!
    25 lines
  • Portrait d'une Femme
    Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
    London has swept about you this score years
    30 lines
  • Envoi
    Go, dumb-born book,
    Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes:
    26 lines
  • Cino
    Italian Campagna 1309, the open road
    Bah! I have sung women in three cities,
    58 lines
  • [Greek]
    Be in me as the eternal moods
    of the bleak wind, and not
    14 lines
  • Fan-Piece, For Her Imperial Lord
    O fan of white silk,
    clear as frost on the grass-blade,
    3 lines, 1 comment
  • E.P. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre
    For three years, out of key with his time,
    He strove to resuscitate the dead art
    99 lines
  • The Encounter
    All the while they were talking the new morality
    Her eyes explored me.
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • The Garret
    Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
    Come, my friend, and remember
    11 lines
  • Taking Leave of a Friend
    Blue mountains to the north of the walls,
    White river winding about them;
    9 lines
  • The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
    The jewelled steps are already quite white with dew,
    It is so late that the dew soaks my gauze stockings,
    4 lines
  • Canto I: And Then Went Down to the Ship
    And then went down to the ship,
    Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea, and
    76 lines
  • Canto XLIX: For the Seven Lakes
    For the seven lakes, and by no man these verses:
    Rain; empty river; a voyage,
    47 lines
  • Villonaud for This Yule
    Towards the Noel that morte saison
    (Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!)
    28 lines
  • La Regina Avrillouse
    Lady of rich allure,
    Queen of the spring's embrace,
    33 lines
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