The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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13246 aram vult nemus 13247 Came Madame Lucrezia 13248 and on the back of the door in Cesena 13249 are, or were, still the initials 13250 joli quart d'heure, (nella Malatestiana) 13251 Torquato where art thou? 13252 to the click of hooves on the cobbles by Tevere 13253 and "my fondest knight lie dead".. or la Stuarda 13254 "ghosts move about me" "patched with histories" 13255 but as Mead said: if they were, 13256 what have they done in the interval, 13257 eh, to arrive by metempsychosis at....? 13258 and there are also the conjectures of the Fortean Society 13259 Beauty is difficult.... the plain ground 13260 precedes the colours 13261 and this grass or whatever here under the tentflaps 13262 is, indubitably, bambooiform 13263 representative brush strokes wd/ be similar 13264 .... cheek bone, by verbal manifestation, 13265 her eyes as in "La Nascita" 13266 whereas the child's face 13267 is at Capoquadri in the fresco square over the doorway 13268 centre background 13269 the form beached under Helios 13270 funge la purezza, 13271 and that certain images be formed in the mind 13272 to remain there 13273 formato locho 13274 Arachne mi porta fortuna 13275 to remain there, resurgent 13276 and still in Trastevere
13278 and the medallions 13279 to forge Achaia 13280 and as for playing checquers with black Jim 13281 on a barrel top where now is the Ritz-Carlton 13282 and the voice of Monsieur Fouquet or the Napoleon 3rd 13283 barbiche of Mr Quackenbos, or Quackenbush 13284 as I supposed it, 13285 and Mrs Chittenden's lofty air 13286 and the remains of the old South 13287 tidewashed to Manhattan and brown-stone 13288 or (later) the outer front stair 13289 leading to Mouquin's 13290 or old Train (Francis) on the pavement in his plain wooden 13291 chair 13292 or a fellow throwing a knife in the market 13293 past baskets and bushels of peaches 13294 at $1. the bushel 13295 and the cool of the 42nd St. tunnel (periplum) 13296 white-wash and horse cars, the Lexington Avenue cable 13297 refinement, pride of tradition, alabaster 13298 Towers of Pisa 13299 (alabaster, not ivory) 13300 coloured photographs of Europa 13301 carved wood from Venice venetian glass and the samovar 13302 and the fire bucket, 1806 Barre Mass'chusetts 13303 and the Charter Oak in Connecticut 13304 or to begin with Cologne Cathedral 13305 the Torwaldsen lion and Paolo Uccello 13306 and thence to Al Hambra, the lion court and el 13307 mirador de la reina Lindaraja 13308 orient reaching to Tangier, the cliffs the villa of Perdicaris 13309 Rais Uli, periplum 13310 Mr Joyce also preoccupied with Gibraltar 13311 and the Pillars of Hercules
13313 or the bugs in Mrs Jevons' hotel 13314 or the quality of the beer served to sailors 13315 veder Nap'oiiiii or Pavia the romanesque 13316 being preferable 13317 and by analogy the form of San Zeno the 13318 columns signed by their maker 13319 the frescoes in S. Pietro and the madonna in Ortolo 13320 e "fa di clarità l'aer tremare" 13321 as in the manuscript of the Capitolare 13322 Trattoria degli Apostoli (dodici) 13323 "Ecco il tè" said the head waiter 13324 in 1912 explaining its mysteries to the piccolo 13325 with a teapot from another hotel 13326 but coffee came to Assisi much later 13327 that is, so one cd/ drink it 13328 when it was lost in Orleans and France semi-ruin'd 13329 thus the coffee-house facts of Vienna 13330 whereas Mr Carver merits mention for the 13331 cultivation of peanuts, 13332 arachidi, and the soja has yet to save Europe 13333 and the wops do not use maple syrup 13334 the useful operations of commerce 13335 stone after stone of beauty cast down 13336 and authenticities disputed by parasites 13337 (made in Ragusa) and: what art do you handle? 13338 "The best" And the moderns? "Oh, nothing modern 13339 we couldn't sell anything modern." 13340 But Herr Bacher's father made madonnas still in the tradition 13341 carved wood as you might have found in any cathedral 13342 and another Bacher still cut intaglios 13343 such as Salustio's in the time of Ixotta, 13344 where the masks come from, in the Tirol, 13345 in the winter season 13346 searching every house to drive out the demons.
13348 as the bright ball that the fountain tosses 13349 (Verlaine) as diamond clearness 13350 How soft the wind under Taishan 13351 where the sea is remembered 13352 out of hell, the pit 13353 out of the dust and glare evil 13354 Zephyrus / Apeliota 13355 This liquid is certainly a 13356 property of the mind 13357 nec accidens est but an element 13358 in the mind's make-up 13359 est agens and functions dust to a fountain pan otherwise 13360 Hast 'ou seen the rose in the steel dust 13361 (or swansdown ever?) 13362 so light is the urging, so ordered the dark petals of iron 13363 we who have passed over Lethe.
LXXV
13365 out of Phlegethon, 13366 Gerhart 13367 art thou come forth out of Phlegethon? 13368 with Buxtehude and Klages in your satchel, with the 13369 Ständebuch of Sachs in yr/ luggage 13370 ---not of one bird but of many 13371 [Image]
LXXVI
13373 And the sun high over horizon hidden in cloud bank 13374 lit saffron the cloud ridge 13375 dove sta memora 13376 "Will said" the Signora Agresti, "break his political 13377 but not economic system" 13378 But on the high cliff Alcmene, 13379 Dryas, Hamadryas ac Heliades 13380 flowered branch and sleeve moving 13381 Dirce et Ixotta e che fu chiamata Primavera 13382 in the timeless air 13383 that they suddenly stand in my room here 13384 between me and the olive tree 13385 or nel clivo ed al triedro? 13386 and answered: the sun in his great periplum 13387 leads in his fleet here 13388 sotto le nostre scogli 13389 under our craggy cliffs 13390 alevel their mast-tops 13391 Sigismundo by the Aurelia to Genova 13392 by la vecchia sotto S. Pantaleone 13393 Cunizza qua al triedro, 13394 e la scalza, and she who said: I still have the mould, 13395 and the rain fell all the night long at Ussel 13396 cette mauvaiseh venggg blew over Tolosa 13397 and in Mt Segur there is wind space and rain space 13398 no more an altar to Mithras 13399 from il triedro to the Castellaro
13401 and their leaves turn under Scirocco 13402 la scalza: Io son' la luna 13403 and they have broken my house 13404 the huntress in broken plaster keeps watch no longer 13405 tempora, tempora and as to mores 13406 by Babylonian wall (memorat Cheever) 13407 out of his bas relief, for that line 13408 we recall him 13409 and who's dead, and who isn't 13410 and will the world ever take up its course again? 13411 very confidentially I ask you: Will it? 13412 with Dieudonné dead and buried 13413 not even a wall, or Mouquin, or Voisin or the cake shops 13414 in the Nevsky 13415 The Greif, yes, I suppose, and Schöners and perhaps 13416 the Taverna and Robert's 13417 but La Rupe no longer la Rupe, finito 13418 Pré Catalan, Armenonville, Bullier 13419 extinct as Willy and there are I suppose 13420 no reprints 13421 Teofile's bricabrac Cocteau's bricabrac 13422 seadrift snowin' 'em under 13423 every man to his junk-shop 13424 houses shd/have been built in the '80's 13425 (or '60's) for a' that 13426 but Eileen's trick sunlight softens London's November 13427 progress, b....h yr/progress [Page 454] 13428 la pigrizia to know the ground and the dew 13429 but to keep 'em three weeks Chung [Image] 13430 we doubt it 13431 and in government not to lie down on it 13432 the word is made
13435 than the sense of Kung fu Tseu 13436 who was called Chung Ni 13437 nor in historiography nor in making anthologies 13438 (b....h yr/progress) 13439 each one in the name of his god 13440 So that in the synagogue in Gibraltar 13441 the sense of humour seemed to prevail 13442 during the preliminary parts of the whatever 13443 but they respected at least the scrolls of the law 13444 from it, by it, redemption 13445 @ $8.50, @ $8.67 buy the field with good money 13446 no unrighteousness in meteyard or in measure (of prices) 13447 and there is no need for the Xtns to pretend that 13448 they wrote Leviticus 13449 chapter XIX in particular 13450 with justice Zion 13451 not by cheating the eye-teeth out of Don Fulano 13452 or of Caio e Tizio; 13453 Why not rebuild it? 13454 Criminals have no intellectual interests? 13455 "Hey, Snag, wot are the books ov th' bibl'" [Page 455] 13456 "name 'em, etc. 13457 "Latin? I studied latin." 13458 said the nigger murderer to his cage-mate 13459 (cdn't be sure which of the two was speaking) 13460 "c'mon, small fry," sd/the smaller black lad 13461 to the larger. 13462 "Just playin'" ante mortem no scortum 13463 (that's progress, me yr''' se/call it progress/) 13464 in the timeless air over the sea-cliffs 13465 "the pride of all our D.T.C. was pistol-packin' Burnes" 13466 But to set here the roads of France, 13467 of Cahors, of Chalus, 13468 the inn low by the river's edge, 13469 the poplars; to set here the roads of France 13470 Aubeterre, the quarried stone beyond Poitiers--- 13471 ---as seen against Sergeant Beaucher's elegant profile--- 13472 and the tower on an almost triangular base 13473 as seen from Santa Marta's in Tarascon 13474 "in heaven have I to make?" 13475 but all the vair and fair women 13476 and there is also the more northern (not nordic) 13477 tradition from Memling to Elskamp, extending 13478 to the ship models in Danzig ... 13479 if they have not destroyed them 13480 with Galla's rest, and ... 13481 is measured by the to whom it happens 13482 and to what, and if to a work of art 13483 then to all who have seen and who will not 13484 Washington, Adams, Tyler, Polk 13485 (with Crawford to bring in a few Colonial 13486 families) the unruly
13488 In fact a small rain storm ... 13489 as it were a mouse, out of cloud's mountain 13490 recalling the arrival of Joyce et fils 13491 at the haunt of Catullus 13492 With Jim's veneration of thunder and the 13493 Gardasee in magnificence 13494 But Miss Norton's memory for the conversation 13495 (or "go on") of idiots 13496 was such as even the eminent Irish writer 13497 has, if equalled at moments (? sintheticly) 13498 certainly never surpassed 13499 Tout dit que pas ne dure la fortune 13500 and the Canal Grande has lasted at least until our time 13501 even if Florian's has been refurbished 13502 and shops in the Piazza kept up by 13503 artificial respiration 13504 and for La Figlia di Jorio they got out a 13505 special edition 13506 (entitled the Oedipus of the Lagunes) 13507 of caricatures of D'Annunzio 13508 l'ara sul rostro 13509 20 years of the dream 13510 and the clouds near to Pisa 13511 are as good as any in Italy 13512 said the young Mozart: if you will take a prise 13513 or following Ponce ("Ponthe") 13514 to the fountain in Florida 13515 de Leon alla fuente florida 13516 or Anchises that laid hold of her flanks of air 13517 drawing her to him 13518 Cythera potens, [Page 457] 13519 no cloud, but the crystal body 13520 the tangent formed in the hand's cup 13521 as live wind in the beech grove 13522 as strong air amid cypress 13523 , /et libidinis expers 13524 the sphere moving crystal, fluid, 13525 none therein carrying rancour 13526 Death, insanity/suicide degeneration 13527 that is, just getting stupider as they get older 13528 ,
13529 nothing matters but the quality 13530 of the affection--- 13531 in the end---that has carved the trace in the mind 13532 dove sta memoria 13533 and if theft be the main principle in government 13534 (every bank of discount J. Adams remarked) 13535 there will be larceny on a minor pattern 13536 a few camions, a stray packet of sugar 13537 and the effect of the movies 13538 the guard did not think that the Führer had started it 13539 Sergeant XL thought that excess population 13540 demanded slaughter at intervals 13541 (as to the by whom ...) Known as 'The ripper.' 13542 Lay in soft grass by the cliff's edge 13543 with the sea 30 metres below this 13544 and at hand's span, at cubit's reach moving, 13545 the crystalline, as inverse of water, 13546 clear over rock-bed 13547 ac ferae familiares 13548 the gemmed field a destra with fawn, with panther, [Page 458] 13549 corn flower, thistle and sword-flower 13550 to a half metre grass growth, 13551 lay on the cliff's edge 13552 ... nor is this yet atasal 13553 nor are here souls, nec personae 13554 neither here in hypostasis, this land is of Dione 13555 and under her planet 13556 to Helia the long meadow with poplars 13557 to 13558 the mountain and shut garden of pear trees in flower 13559 here rested. 13560 . . . . 13561 "both eyes, (the loss of) and to find someone 13562 who talked his own dialect. We 13563 talked of every boy and girl in the valley 13564 but when he came back from leave 13565 he was sad because he had been able to feel 13566 all the ribs of his cow...." 13567 this wind out of Carrara 13568 is soft as un terzo cielo 13569 said the Prefetto 13570 as the cat walked the porch rail at Gardone 13571 the lake flowing away from that side 13572 was still as is never in Sirmio 13573 with Fujiyama above it: "La donna ..." 13574 said the Prefect, in the silence 13575 and the spring of their squeak-doll is broken 13576 and Bracken is out and the B.B.C. can lie 13577 but at least a different bilge will come out of it 13578 at least for a little, as is its nature 13579 can continue, that is, to lie. 13580 As a lone ant from a broken ant-hill 13581 from the wreckage of Europe, ego scriptor.
13583 out of the mountain 13584 Lucca, Forti dei Marmi, Berchthold after the other one ... 13585 parts reassembled. 13586 ... and within the crystal, went up swift as Thetis 13587 in colour rose-blue before sunset 13588 and carmine and amber, 13589 spiriti questi? personae? 13590 tangibility by no means atasal 13591 but the crystal can be weighed in the hand 13592 formal and passing within the sphere: Thetis, 13593 Maya, , 13594 no overstroke 13595 no dolphin faster in moving 13596 nor the flying azure of the wing'd fish under Zoagli 13597 when he comes out into the air, living arrow. 13598 and the clouds over the Pisan meadows 13599 are indubitably as fine as any to be seen 13600 from the peninsula 13601 have not destroyed them 13602 as they have Sigismundo's Temple 13603 Divae Ixottae (and as to her effigy that was in Pisa?) 13604 Ladder at swing jump as for a descent from the cross 13605 O white-chested martin, God damn it, 13606 as no one else will carry a message, 13607 say to La Cara: amo. 13608 Her bed-posts are of sapphire 13609 for this stone giveth sleep. 13610 and in spite of hoi barbaroi 13611 pervenche and a sort of dwarf morning-glory 13612 that knots in the grass, and a sort of buttercup
13614 Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel 13615 States of mind are inexplicable to us. 13616
13617 L. P. gli onesti 13618 J'ai eu pitié des autres 13619 probablement pas assez, and at moments that suited my own con- 13620 venience 13621 Le paradis n'est pas artificiel, 13622 l'enfer non plus. 13623 Came Eurus as comforter 13624 and at sunset la pastorella dei suini 13625 driving the pigs home, benecomata dea 13626 under the two-winged cloud 13627 as of less and more than a day 13628 by the soap-smooth stone posts where San Vio 13629 meets with il Canal Grande 13630 between Salviati and the house that was of Don Carlos 13631 shd/I chuck the lot into the tide-water? 13632 le bozze "A Lume Spento"/ 13633 and by the column of Todero 13634 shd/I shift to the other side 13635 or wait 24 hours, 13636 free then, therein the difference 13637 in the great ghetto, left standing 13638 with the new bridge of the Era where was the old eyesore 13639 Vendramin, Contrarini, Fonda, Fondecho 13640 and Tullio Romano carved the sirenes 13641 as the old custode says: so that since 13642 then no one has been able to carve them 13643 for the jewel box, Santa Maria Dei Miracoli,
13645 in the Carpaccio 13646 and in the font to the right as you enter 13647 are all the gold domes of San Marco 13648 Arachne, che mi porta fortuna, go spin on that tent rope 13649 Unkle George in Brassitalo's abbazia 13650 voi che passate per questa via: 13651 Does D'Annunzio live here? 13652 said the american lady, K. H. 13653 "I do not know" said the aged Veneziana, 13654 "this lamp is for the virgin." 13655 "Non combaattere" said Giovanna, 13656 meaning: don't work so hard, 13657 Arachne che mi porta fortuna; 13658 Athene, who wrongs thee? 13659
13660 That butterfly has gone out thru my smoke hole 13661 Unkle George observing Ct/Volpe's neck at the Lido 13662 and deducing his energy. Unkle G. stood like a statue 13663 "Rutherford Hayes on a monument" 13664 as the princess approached him 13665 "You from New England?" barked the 10th District, 13666 and it came over me as he talked: 13667 this is Dafne's Sandro--- 13668 How? after 30 years, 13669 Trovaso, Gregorio, Vio 13670 "Dawnt let 'em git you" burred the bearded Dottore 13671 when was the Scottch Kirrrk in Venice [Page 462] 13672 to warn one against Babylonian intrigue 13673 and there have been since then 13674 very high episcopal vagaries 13675 well, my window 13676 looked out on the Squero where Ogni Santi 13677 meets San Trovaso 13678 things have ends and beginnings 13679 and the gilded cassoni neither then nor up to the present 13680 the hidden nest, Tami's dream, the great Ovid 13681 bound in thick boards, the bas relief of Ixotta 13682 and the care in contriving 13683 Olim de Malatestis 13684 the long hall over the arches at Fano 13685 olim de Malatestis 13686 "64 countries and down a boilin' volcano" 13687 says the sargent 13688 ex rum-runner (the rum being vino rosso) 13689 "runnin whisky" sez he; mountain oysters? 13690 lisciate con lagrime 13691 politis lachrymis 13692 bricks thought into being ex nihil 13693 suave in the cavity of the rock la concha 13694 , 13695 that butterfly has gone out thru my smoke hole 13696 , saeva. Against buff the rose for the 13697 background to Leonello, Petrus Pisani pinxit 13698 that a cameo should remain 13699 in Arezzo an altar fragment (Cortona, Angelico) 13700 po'eri di'aoli 13701 po'eri di'aoli sent to the slaughter [Page 463] 13702 Knecht gegen Knecht 13703 to the sound of the bumm drum, to eat remnants 13704 for a usurer's holiday to change the 13705 price of a currency 13706 .... 13707
13708 woe to them that conquer with armies 13709 and whose only right is their power. [Page 464] LXXVII
13710 And this day Abner lifted a shovel..... 13711 instead of watchin' it to see if it would 13712 take action 13713 Von Tirpitz said to his daughter..as we have elsewhere 13714 recorded / he said: beware of their charm 13715 But on the other hand Maukch thought he 13716 would do me a favour by getting me onto the commission 13717 to inspect the mass graves at Katin, 13718 le beau monde gouverne 13719 if not toujours at any rate it is a level of 13720 some sort whereto things tend to return 13721 Chung 13722 [Image]
13724 whether upright or horizontal 13725 "and having got 'em (advantages, privilege) 13726 there is nothing, italics nothing, they will not do 13727 to retain 'em" 13728 yrs truly Kungfutseu 13729 Entered the Bros Watson's store in Clinton N. Y. 13730 preceded by a crash, i.e. by a 13731 huge gripsack or satchel 13732 which fell and skidded along the 20 foot aisle-way 13733 and ceased with a rumpus of glassware 13734 (unbreakable as it proved) 13735 and with the enquiry: WOT IZZA COMIN'? 13736 "I'll tell you wot izza comin' 13737 Sochy-lism is a-comin'
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