The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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14209 to what is used and worn out 14210 à la Wörgl. Sd/ one wd/ have to think about that 14211 but was hang'd dead by the heels before his thought in proposito 14212 came into action efficiently 14213 "For a pig," Jepson said, "for a woman." For the infamies of 14214 usura, 14215 The Stealing of the Mare, casûs bellorum, "mits" 14216 sang Mr Wilson, Thomas not Woodrow, Harriet's spirited heir 14217 (the honours twice with his boots on, 14218 that was Wellington) 14219 and if theft be the main motive in government 14220 in a large way 14221 there will certainly be minor purloinments 14222 As long as the socialists use their accessories as red herring 14223 to keep man's mind off the creation of money 14224 many men's mannirs videt et urbes 14225 ce rusé personnage, Otis, so Nausikaa 14226 took down the washing or at least went to see that the 14227 maids didn't slack 14228 or sat by the window 14229 at Bagni Romagna knowing that nothing could happen 14230 and looking ironicly at the traveler 14231 Cassandra your eyes are like tigers' 14232 no light reaches through them 14233 eating lotus, or if not exactly the lotus, the asphodel 14234 To be gentildonna in a lost town in the mountains 14235 on a balcony with an iron railing 14236 with a servant behind her 14237 as it might be in a play by Lope de Vega [Page 483] 14238 and one goes by, not alone, 14239 No hay amor sin celos 14240 Sin segreto no hay amor 14241 eyes of Doña Juana la loca, 14242 Cunizza's shade al triedro and that presage 14243 in the air 14244 which means that nothing will happen that will 14245 be visible to the sargeants 14246 Tre donne intorno alla mia mente 14247 but as of conversation to follow, 14248 boredom of that roman on Olivia's stairs 14249 in her vision 14250 that stone angle all of his scenery 14251 with the balustrade, an antipodes 14252 and as for the solidity of the white oxen in all this 14253 perhaps only Dr Williams (Bill Carlos) 14254 will understand its importance, 14255 its benediction. He wd/ have put in the cart. 14256 The shadow of the tent's peak treads on its corner peg 14257 marking the hour. The moon split, no cloud nearer than Lucca. 14258 In the spring and autumn 14259 In "The Spring and Autumn" 14260 there 14261 are 14262 no 14263 righteous 14264 wars
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14265 Moon, cloud, tower, a patch of the battistero 14266 all of a whiteness, 14267 dirt pile as per the Del Cossa inset 14268 think not that you wd/ gain if their least caress 14269 were faded from my mind 14270 I had not loved thee half so well 14271 Loved I not womankind" 14272 So Salzburg reopens 14273 lit a flame in my thought that the years 14274 Amari---li Am---ar---i---li! 14275 and her hair gone white from the loss of him 14276 and she not yet thirty. 14277 On her wedding day and then thus, for the next time, 14278 at the Spielhaus, 14279 ... might have been two years later. 14280 Or Astafieva inside the street doors of the Wigmore 14281 and wd/ not have known her 14282 undoubtedly wd/ have put in the cart) 14283 present Mr G. Scott whistling Lili Marlene 14284 with positively less musical talent 14285 than that of any other man of colour 14286 whom I have ever encountered 14287 but with bonhomie and good humour 14288 (to Goedel in memoriam) 14289 Sleek head that saved me out of one chaos 14290 and I hear that G. P. has salmoned thru all of it. 14291 Où sont? and who will come to the surface? 14292 And Pétain not to be murdered 14 to 13 14293 after six hours' discussion 14294 Indubitably, indubitably re/ Scott 14295 I like a certain number of shades in my landscape
14297 or Whiteside: 14298 "ah certainly dew lak dawgs, 14299 ah goin' tuh wash you" 14300 (no, not to the author, to the canine unwilling in question) 14301 with 8 birds on a wire 14302 or rather on 3 wires, Mr Allingham 14303 The new Bechstein is electric 14304 and the lark squawk has passed out of season 14305 whereas the sight of a good nigger is cheering 14306 the bad'uns wont look you straight 14307 Guard's cap quattrocento passes a cavallo 14308 on horseback thru landscape Cosimo Tura 14309 or, as some think, Del Cossa; 14310 up stream to delouse and down stream for the same purpose 14311 seaward 14312 different lice live in different waters 14313 some minds take pleasure in counterpoint 14314 pleasure in counterpoint 14315 and the later Beethoven on the new Bechstein, 14316 or in the Piazza S. Marco for example 14317 finds a certain concordance of size 14318 not in the concert hall; 14319 can that be the papal major sweatin' it out to the bumm drum? 14320 what castrum romanum, what 14321 "went into winter quarters" 14322 is under us? 14323 as the young horse whinnies against the tubas 14324 in contending for certain values 14325 (Janequin per esempio, and Orazio Vechii or Bronzino) 14326 Greek rascality against Hagoromo 14327 Kumasaka vs/ vulgarity 14328 no sooner out of Troas 14329 than the damn fools attacked Ismarus of the Cicones 14330 4 birds on 3 wires, one bird on one
14332 in part on what is pressed under it [Image] 14333 the mould must hold what is poured into it 14334 in 14335 discourse 14336 what matters is 14337 to get it across e poi basta [Image] 14338 5 of 'em now on 2; 14339 on 3; 7 on 4 14340 thus what's his name 14341 and the change in writing the song books 14342 5 on 3 aulentissima rosa fresca 14343 so they have left the upper church at Assisi 14344 but the Goncourt shed certain light on the 14345 french revolution 14346 "paak you djeep oveh there" 14347 the bacon-rind banner alias the Washington arms 14348 floats over against Ugolino 14349 in San Stefano dei Cavalieri 14350 God bless the Constitution 14351 and save it 14352 "the value thereof" 14353 that is the crux of the matter 14354 and god damn the perverters 14355 and if Attlee attempts a Ramsey 14356 "Leave the Duke, go for the gold" 14357 "in less than a geological epoch" 14358 and the Fleet that triumphed at Salamis 14359 and Wilkes's fixed the price per loaf 14360
14361 Athene cd/ have done with more sex appeal 14362 caesia oculi 14363 "Pardon me, " 14364 ("Leave it, I'm not a fool.") 14365 mah?
14367 "paak you djeep oveh there." 14368 2 on 2 14369 what's the name of that bastard? D'Arezzo, Gui d'Arezzo [Image] 14370 notation 14371 3 on 3 14372 chiacchierona the yellow bird [Image] 14373 to rest 3 months in bottle 14374 (auctor) 14375 by the two breasts of Tellus [Image] 14376 Bless my buttons, a staff car/ 14377 si come avesse l'inferno in gran dispitto 14378 Capanaeus 14379 with 6 on 3, swallow-tails 14380 as from the breasts of Helen, a cup of white gold 14381 2 cups for three altars. Tellus feconda 14382 "each one in the name of its god" 14383 mint, thyme and basilicum, 14384 the young horse whinnies against the sound of the bumm band; 14385 to that 'gadgett,' and to the production and the slaughter 14386 (on both sides) in memoriam 14387 "Hell! don't they get a break for the whistle?" 14388 and if the court be not the centre of learning ... 14389 in short the snot of pejorocracy ... 14390 tinsel gilded 14391 of fat fussy old woman 14392 and fat snorty old stallions 14393 "half dead at the top" 14394 My dear William B. Y. your ½ was too moderate 14395 "pragmatic pig" (if goyim) will serve for 2 thirds of it 14396 to say nothing of the investment of funds in the Yu-en-mi 14397 and similar ventures 14398 small arms 'n' chemicals 14399 whereas Mr Keith comes nearest to Donatello's 14400 O Lynx, my love, my lovely lynx,
14402 Guard close my mountain still 14403 Till the god come into this whiskey. 14404 Manitou, god of lynxes, remember our corn. 14405 Khardas, god of camels 14406 what the deuce are you doing here? 14407 I beg your pardon ... 14408 "Prepare to go on a journey." 14409 "I ..." 14410 "Prepare to go on a journey." 14411 or to count sheep in Phoenician, 14412 How is it far if you think of it? 14413 So they said to Lidya: no, your body-guard is not the 14414 town executioner 14415 the executioner is not here for the moment 14416 the fellow who rides beside your coachman 14417 is just a cossak who executes ... 14418 Which being the case, her holding dear H. J. 14419 (Mr. James, Henry) literally by the button-hole ... 14420 in those so consecrated surroundings 14421 (a garden in the Temple, no less) 14422 and saying, for once, the right thing 14423 namely: "Cher maître" 14424 to his checqued waistcoat, the Princess Bariatinsky, 14425 as the fish-tails said to Odysseus, , 14426 The moon has a swollen cheek 14427 and when the morning sun lit up the shelves and battalions 14428 of the West, cloud over cloud 14429 Old Ez folded his blankets 14430 Neither Eos nor Hesperus has suffered wrong at my hands 14431 O Lynx, wake Silenus and Casey 14432 shake the castagnettes of the bassarids, [Page 489] 14433 the mountain forest is full of light 14434 the tree-comb red-gilded 14435 Who sleeps in the field of lynxes 14436 in the orchard of Maelids? 14437 (with great blue marble eyes 14438 "because he likes to," the cossak) 14439 Salazar, Scott, Dawley on sick call 14440 Polk, Tyler, half the presidents and Calhoun 14441 "Retaliate on the capitalists" sd/ Calhoun "of the North" 14442 ah yes, when the ideas were clearer 14443 debts to people in N. Y. city 14444 and on the hill of the Maelids 14445 in the close garden of Venus 14446 asleep amid serried lynxes 14447 set wreathes on Priapus , Io! , Io! 14448 having root in the equities 14449 Io! 14450 and you can make 5000 dollars a year 14451 all you have to do is to make one trip up country 14452 then come back to Shanghai 14453 and send in an annual report 14454 as to the number of converts 14455 Sweetland on sick call 14456 Kyrie eleison 14457 each under his fig tree 14458 or with the smell of fig leaves burning 14459 so shd/ be fire in winter 14460 with fig wood, with cedar, and pine burrs 14461 O Lynx keep watch on my fire. 14462 So Astafieva had conserved the tradition 14463 From Byzance and before then 14464 Manitou remember this fire 14465 O lynx, keep the phylloxera from my grape vines
14467 "Eat of it not in the under world" 14468 See that the sun or the moon bless thy eating 14469 , , for the six seeds of an error 14470 or that the stars bless thy eating 14471 O Lynx, guard this orchard, 14472 Keep from Demeter's furrow 14473 This fruit has a fire within it, 14474 Pomona, Pomona 14475 No glass is clearer than are the globes of this flame 14476 what sea is clearer than the pomegranate body 14477 holding the flame? 14478 Pomona, Pomona, 14479 Lynx, keep watch on this orchard 14480 That is named Melagrana 14481 or the Pomegranate field 14482 The sea is not clearer in azure 14483 Nor the Heliads bringing light 14484 Here are lynxes Here are lynxes, 14485 Is there a sound in the forest 14486 of pard or of bassarid 14487 or crotable or of leaves moving? 14488 Cythera, here are lynxes 14489 Will the scrub-oak burst into flower? 14490 There is a rose vine in this underbrush 14491 Red? white? No, but a colour between them 14492 When the pomegranate is open and the light falls 14493 half thru it 14494 Lynx, beware of these vine-thorns 14495 O Lynx, coming up from the olive yards, [Page 491] 14496 Kuthera, here are Lynxes and the clicking of crotales 14497 There is a stir of dust from old leaves 14498 Will you trade roses for acorns 14499 Will lynxes eat thorn leaves? 14500 What have you in that wine jar? 14501 , for lynxes? 14502 Maelid and bassarid among lynxes; 14503 how many? There are more under the oak trees, 14504 We are here waiting the sun-rise 14505 and the next sunrise 14506 for three nights amid lynxes. For three nights 14507 of the oak-wood 14508 and the vines are thick in their branches 14509 no vine lacking flower, 14510 no lynx lacking a flower rope 14511 no Maelid minus a wine jar 14512 this forest is named Melagrana 14513 O lynx, keep the edge on my cider 14514 Keep it clear without cloud 14515 We have lain here amid kalicanthus and sword-flower 14516 The heliads are caught in wild rose vine 14517 The smell of pine mingles with rose leaves 14518 O lynx, be many 14519 of spotted fur and sharp ears. 14520 O lynx, have your eyes gone yellow, 14521 with spotted fur and sharp ears? 14522 Therein is the dance of the bassarids 14523 Therein are centaurs 14524 And now Priapus with Faunus 14525 The Graces have brought 14526 Her cell is drawn by ten leopards
14528 As the grape swells under vine leaf 14529 "; is come to our mountain 14530 there is a red glow in the carpet of pine spikes 14531 O lynx, guard my vineyard 14532 As the grape swells under vine leaf 14533 This Goddess was born of sea-foam 14534 She is lighter than air under Hesperus 14535 , 14536 terrible in resistance 14537 14538 trine as praeludio 14539 14540 a petal lighter than sea-foam 14541 14542 aram 14543 nemus 14544 vult 14545 O puma, sacred to Hermes, Cimbica servant of Helios.
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14546 Ain' committed no federal crime, 14547 jes a slaight misdemeanor" 14548 Thus Mr A. Little or perhaps Mr Nelson, or Washington 14549 reflecting on the vagaries of our rising 14550 Amo ergo sum, and in just that proportion 14551 And Margot's death will be counted the end of an era 14552 and dear Walter was sitting amid the spoils of Finlandia 14553 a good deal of polar white 14554 but the gas cut off. 14555 Debussy preferred his playing 14556 that also was an era (Mr. W. Rummel) 14557 an era of croissants 14558 then an era of pains au lait 14559 and the eucalyptus bobble is missing 14560 "Come pan, niño!" 14561 that was an era also, and Spanish bread 14562 was made out of grain in that era 14563 senesco 14564 sed amo 14565 Madri', Sevilla, Córdoba, 14566 there was grain equally in the bread of that era 14567 senesco sed amo 14568 Gervais must have put milk in his cheese 14569 (and the mortal fatigue of action postponed) 14570 and Las Meniñas hung in a room by themselves 14571 and Philip horsed and not horsed and the dwarfs 14572 and Don Juan of Austria 14573 Breda, the Virgin, Los Boracchos 14574 are they all now in the Prado? 14575 y Las Hilanderas? [Page 494] 14576 Do they sell such old brass still in "Las Américas" 14577 with the wind coming hot off the marsh land 14578 or with death-chill from the mountains? 14579 and with Symons remembering Verlaine at the Tabarin 14580 or Hennique, Flaubert 14581 Nothing but death, said Turgenev (Tiresias) 14582 is irreparable 14583
14584 Still hath his mind entire 14585 But to lose faith in a possible collaboration 14586 To raise up the ivory wall 14587 or to stand as the coral rises, 14588 as the pilot-fish nears it 14589 (will they shoot X---y) 14590 or the whale-mouth for wanting a northern league 14591 for demanding a Scandinavian Norse coalition 14592 inexorable 14593 this is from heaven 14594 the warp 14595 and the woof 14596 with a sky wet as ocean 14597 flowing with liquid slate 14598 Pétain defended Verdun while Blum 14599 was defending a bidet 14600 the red and white stripes 14601 cut clearer against the slate 14602 than against any other distance 14603 the blue field melts with the cloud-flow 14604 To communicate and then stop, that is the 14605 law of discourse 14606 To go far and come to an end 14607 simplex munditiis, as the hair of Circe 14608 perhaps without the munditiis 14609 as the difference between the title page in old Legge 14610 and some of the elegant fancy work
14612 they say she could draw down birds from the trees, 14613 that indeed was imperial; but made hell in 14614 the palace 14615 as some say : a dark forest 14616 the warp and the woof 14617 that is of heaven 14618 "and I be damned" said Confucius: 14619 This affair of a southern Nancy 14620 and as for the vagaries of our friend 14621 Mr Hartmann, 14622 Sadakichi a few more of him, 14623 were that conceivable, would have enriched 14624 the life of Manhattan 14625 or any other town or metropolis 14626 the texts of his early stuff are probably lost 14627 with the loss of fly-by-night periodicals 14628 and our knowledge of Hovey, 14629 Stickney, Loring, 14630 the lost legion or as Santayana has said: 14631 They just died They died because they 14632 just couldn't stand it 14633 and Carman "looked like a withered berry" 14634 20 years after 14635 Whitman liked oysters 14636 at least I think it was oysters 14637 and the clouds have made a pseudo-Vesuvius 14638 this side of Taishan 14639 Nenni, Nenni, who will have the succession? 14640 To this whiteness, Tseng said 14641 "What shall add to this whiteness?" 14642 and as to poor old Benito 14643 one had a safety-pin 14644 one had a bit of string, one had a button 14645 all of them so far beneath him
14647 or mere scoundrels 14648 To sell their country for half a million 14649 hoping to cheat more out of the people 14650 bought the place from the concierge 14651 who could not deliver 14652 but on the other hand emphasis 14653 an error or excess of 14654 emphasis 14655 the problem after any revolution is what to do with 14656 your gunmen 14657 as old Billyum found out in Oireland 14658 in the Senate, Bedad! or before then 14659 Your gunmen thread on moi drreams 14660 O woman shapely as a swan, 14661 Your gunmen tread on my dreams 14662 Whoi didn't he (Padraic Colum) 14663 keep on writing poetry at that voltage 14664 "Whenever you get hold of one of their banknotes 14665 (i.e. an Ulster note) burn it" 14666 said one of the senators 14667 planning the conquest of Ulster 14668 This he said in the Oirish Senate 14669 showing a fine grasp of ... 14670 of possibly nothing, 14671 If a man don't occasionally sit in a senate 14672 how can he pierce the darrk mind of a 14673 senator? 14674 and down there they have been having their Palio 14675 "Torre! Torre! Civetta!" 14676 and I trust they have not destroyed the 14677 old theatre 14678 by restaurations, and by late renaissance giribizzi, 14679 dove è Barilli? [Page 497] 14680 this calvario "we will not descend from," sd/ the prete 14681 on the damn'd hard bench waiting the horses 14682 and the parade and the corrocchio and the flag-play 14683 and the tossing of the flags of the contrade 14684 "for another four hours" 14685 "non è una hontrada è un homplesso" 14686 explained an expert to an inexpert 14687 re/ the remains of the guilds or arti 14688 where they say: hamomila de hampo 14689 and the Osservanza is broken 14690 and the best de la Robbia busted to flinders 14691 and near what? Li Saou 14692 and the front of the Tempio, Rimini 14693 It will not take uth twenty yearth 14694 to cwuth Mutholini 14695 and the economic war has begun 14696 35 via Balbo 14697 (Napoleon etc.) Since Waterloo 14698 nothing etc. Leave the Duke, go for the gold! 14699 action somewhat sporadic 14700 "Will never be used at home 14701 but abroad to increase the 14702 etc. of the lenders," the eh ... investors 14703 and is buried in the Red Square in Mosqu 14704 along with Andy Jackson, Napoleon and others 14705 there is according to some authors a partial resurrection 14706 of corpses 14707 on all souls day in Cairo 14708 or perhaps all over Egypt 14709 in identity but not atom for atom 14710 but the Sadducees hardly give credence 14711 to Mr Eliot's version 14712 Partial resurrection in Cairo. 14713 Beddoes, I think, omits it. 14714 The bone luz, I think was his take off
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