The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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17944 and the degradation of sacraments, 17945 For 40 years I have seen this, 17946 now flood as the Yang tse 17947 also desensitization 17948 25 hundred years desensitization [Page 622] 17949 2 thousand years, desensitization 17950 After Apollonius, desensitization 17951 & a little light from the borders: 17952 Erigena, 17953 Avicenna, Richardus. 17954 Hilary looked at an oak leaf 17955 or holly, or rowan 17956 as against the brown oil and corpse sweat 17957 & then cannon to take the chinks opium 17958 & the Portagoose uprooting spice-trees "a common" 17959 sez Ari "custom in trade"
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17961 "A man's paradise is his good nature" 17962 sd/ Kati. 17963 "panis angelicus" Antef 17964 two ½s of a seal 17965 having his own mind to stand by him 17966
17967 Apollonius made his peace with the animals, 17968 so the arcivescovo fumbled round under his 17969 ample overcloaks as to what might have been 17970 a left-hand back pocket of civil clothing 17971 and produced a cornucopia from "La Tour" 17972 or as Augustine said, or as the Pope wrote to Augustine 17973 "easier to convert after you feed 'em" 17974 but this was before St Peter's 17975 in move toward a carrozza 17976 from the internal horrors (mosaic) 17977 en route to Santa Sabina 17978 & San Domenico 17979 where the spirit is clear in the stone 17980 as against 17981 Filth of the Hyksos, butchers of lesser cattle. 17982 Narrow alabaster in sunlight 17983 in Classe, in San Domenico 17984 (Yes, my Ondine, it is so god-damned dry on these rocks) [Page 624] 17985 "The waves rise, and the waves fall 17986 But you are like the moon-light: 17987 Always there!" 17988 Old Grinell had remembered that. 17989 By olibanum, the polite salutation, the smoke sign; 17990 Do not pester the spirits. 17991 "non fosse cive" 17992 Dant' had it, 17993 Some sense of civility 17994 & from Avon (whence they do not suspect it) 17995 As in "dragons' spleens", 17996 or "a pelting farm", 17997 Liquidity from the alum at Tolfa 17998 ---Papal, that was. 17999 And the Medici failed 18000 From accepting excess deposits. 18001 "Te voilà, mon Bourienne." 18002 corrent' attrattiva, 18003 with the ureus, azure 18004 that is from turquoise and gold, 18005 Iside, out of turquoise and gold. 18006 Peitz trai pena d'amor Que Tristans l'amador 18007 Qu'a suffri mainta dolor 18008 per Iseutz la bionda 18009 First petals and then cool rain 18010 sward Castalia again 18011 Peitz trai pena d'amor 18012 Que Tristans l'amador 18013 Qu'a suffri mainta dolor 18014 Per Iseutz la bionda 18015 First petals
18017 By sward Castalia again 18018 The suicide is not serious from conviction 18019 One should first bump off some nuisance. 18020 From sheer physical depression, c'est autre chose. 18021 San Cristoforo provided transport 18022 with a little Christo gripping his hair 18023 the mist domed over Gardasee 18024 the east lobe bluer from sulphur 18025 dove siede Peschiera 18026 no such blue north of Sorrento 18027 Cortesia, onestade 18028 out of the Ureus 18029 Nine knowledges about 18030 [Image] chih3 18031 chih 18032 Avicenna and Algazel 18033 The 8th being natural science, 9th moral 18034 8th the concrete, 9th the agenda, 18035 Agassiz with the fixed stars, Kung to the crystaline, 18036 To Queen Nephertari this incense 18037 To Isis this incense 18038 "quest' unire 18039 "quale è dentro l'anima 18040 veggendo di fuori quelli che ama" 18041 Risplende 18042 From the sea-caves 18043 degli occhi 18044 Manifest and not abstract
18046 che Pitagora si chiamò. 18047 "non sempre" (in the 3rd of Convivio) 18048 or as above stated "jagged" 18049 l'amor che ti fa bella 18050 ("ut facias"---Goddeschalk---"pulchram") 18051 That love is the "form" of philosophy, 18052 is its shape (è forma di Filosofia) 18053 and that men are naturally friendly 18054 at any rate from his (Dant's) point of view 18055 tho' he puts knowledge higher than I should 18056 and, elsewhere: "her" beltà, 18057 cioè moralitade, 18058 rains flakes of fire", 18059 but is not speaking of knowledge. 18060 Though Jacopo Sellaio included it 18061 "e solo in lealtà far si diletta" 18062 e "d'udir ... prode" both of antient times and our own, 18063 and on another point 18064 600 years before Beaumarchais 18065 38 hundred years after KATI
18068 "vuol mettere le sue idee in ordine?" 18069 "Pel mio poema." 18070 bellezza (outside Perugia, 18071 seated on three sacks of laundry, 18072 pargoletta 18073 "onestade risplende". Dio, la prima bontade
18076 Alessandro & Saladin & Galasso di Montefeltro 18077 and mentions distributive justice, Dante does, in Convivio 18078 Four, eleven 18079 "cui adorna esta bontade". Know agenda, 18080 to the utmost of its virtu, 18081 of its own. 18082 All ov which may be a little slow for the reader 18083 or seem platitudinous 18084 und kein Weekend-Spass 18085 Mr Hoepli sent a small brochure to Svitzerland 18086 and his banker friend replied "urgente": 18087 "destroy it e farlo sparire." 18088 Shivers has received (again) nomination 18089 and "Alfalfa" is no longer in Who's Who, 18090 current issue. 18091 Grenfell's death was (like some others) 18092 suspiciously sudden. 18093 The Bard of Avon mentioned the subject, 18094 Dante mentioned the subject, 18095 and the lit profs discuss other passages 18096 in abuleia 18097 or in total unconsciousness 18098 Four thousand years after KATI 18099 [Image] 18100 Taffy went putty-colour when I mentioned Zaharoff (1914) 18101 And general Whoosis, when he read the name, Aquarone, 18102 30 years later [Page 628] 18103 or as Ub said: "ten to charge a nest of machine guns 18104 for one who will put his name on a chit. 18105 The autumn leaves blow from my hand, 18106 agitante calescemus ... 18107 and the wind cools toward autumn. 18108 Lux in diafana, 18109 Creatrix, 18110 oro. 18111 Ursula benedetta, 18112 oro 18113 By the hours of passion, 18114 per dilettevole ore, 18115 guide your successor, 18116 Ysolt, Ydone, 18117 have compassion, 18118 Picarda, 18119 compassion 18120 By the wing'd head, 18121 by the caduceus, 18122 compassion; 18123 By the horns of Isis-Luna, 18124 compassion. 18125 The black panther lies under his rose-tree. 18126 J'ai eu pitié des autres. 18127 Pas assez! Pas assez! 18128 For me nothing. But that the child 18129 walk in peace in her basilica, 18130 The light there almost solid. 18131 [Image] li4 [Page 629] 18132 [Image] hsing2 18133 [Image] chin4 18134 [Image] hu1 2154 18135 [Image] jên2 18136 holding that energy is near to benevolence. 18137 Au bois dormant, 18138 not yet ...! Not yet! 18139 do not awaken. 18140 The trees sleep, and the stags, and the grass; 18141 The boughs sleep unmoving. 18142 "Krr! Krr!" from the starling: 18143 "mai tardi ..." 18144 "per l'ignoto" 18145 and the soul's job? (Ocellus) 18146 "Renew" 18147 as on the T'ang tub: 18148 Renew
18155 & there is no doubt that D'Annunzio 18156 could move the crowd in a theatre 18157 or that the stone rose in Brescia, 18158 Amphion! 18159 And yet for Venus and Roma 18160 a wraith moved in air 18161 And Rapicavoli lost for a horse-jump. 18162 Quarta Sponda 18163 transient as air 18164 Waste after Carthage. 18165 not yet! not yet! 18166 Do not awaken. 18167 Came then Flora Castalia 18168 "Air hath no petals now, 18169 where shall come leaf on bough 18170 naught is but air. 18171 "pone metum, Cerinthe, 18172 Nec deus laedit 18173 and the Lorraine girl heard in the fields. 18174 Tho' the skater move fast or slow 18175 the ice must be solid 18176 Pone metum, Cerinthe 18177 volucres delphinasque ad auditum 18178 tone, tide, tide 18179 if the tone draw the dolphin 18180 [Image] hsien 18181 nuova vita 18182 e ti fiammeggio. [Page 631] 18183 Such light is in sea-caves 18184 e la bella Ciprigna 18185 where copper throws back the flame 18186 from pinned eyes, the flames rise to fade 18187 in green air. 18188 A foot-print? alcun vestigio? 18189 thus was it for 5 thousand years 18190 thus saith [Image] (Kati). 18191 and as for the trigger-happy mind 18192 amid stars 18193 amid dangers; abysses 18194 going six ways a Sunday, 18195 how shall philologers? 18196 A butcher's block for biographers, 18197 quidity! 18198 Have they heard of it? 18199 "Oh you," as Dante says 18200 "in the dinghy astern there" 18201 There must be incognita 18202 and in sea-caves 18203 un lume pien' di spiriti 18204 and of memories, 18205 Shall two know the same in their knowing? 18206 You who dare Persephone's threshold, 18207 Beloved, do not fall apart in my hands. 18208 E "chi crescerà" they would be individuals. 18209 Swedenborg said "of societies" 18210 by attraction. 18211 "Blind eyes and shadows"
18213 up out of hell, from the labyrinth 18214 the path wide as a hair 18215 & as to mental velocities: 18216 Yeats on Ian Hamilton: "So stupid he 18217 couldn't think unless there were a cannonade going on." 18218 The duration 18219 in re/ mental velocity 18220 as to antennae 18221 as to malevolence. 18222 Six ways to once 18223 of a Sunday. Velocity. 18224 Without guides, having nothing but courage 18225 Shall audacity last into fortitude? 18226 You are tender as a marshmallow, my Love, 18227 I cannot use you as a fulcrum. 18228 You have stirred my mind out of dust. 18229 Flora Castalia, your petals drift thru the air, 18230 the wind is ½ lighted with pollen 18231 diafana, 18232 e Monna Vanna ... tu mi fai rimembrar.
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18233 "Brederode" 18234 (to Rush, Ap 4. 1790) 18235 ... treaties of commerce only, 18236 Blue jay, my blue jay 18237 that she should take wing in the night 18238 by the Kingdom of 18239 T'ai [Image] 18240 Wu [Image] 18241 Tzu [Image] 18242 as mentioned in Rollin, 18243 re/ Lincoln, 14th May. 1810 18244 "or whose depreciations are to the favour of the whole people" 18245 Mr Adams saw thru the bank hoax 18246 & Suvitch a century plus 20 years later: 18247 "d- d- d- dina- mite! 18248 sssi si 18249 d-d- 18250 dinamite! 18251 & the Medici failed from accepting too many deposits. 18252 Alex ..., a respectable 18253 or at least meritorious Biddle, 18254 alive 1890
18256 J. A. to Rush 18257 18 'leven. 18258 Beyond civic order: 18259 l'AMOR. 18260 Was it Frate Egidio---"per la mente" 18261 looking down and reproving 18262 "who shd/ mistake the eye for the mind". 18263 Above prana, the light, 18264 past light, the crystal. 18265 Above crystal, the jade! 18266 The clover enduring, 18267 basalt crumbled with time. 18268 "Are they the same leaves?" 18269 that was an intelligent question. 18270 And that all gates are holy. 18271 (Pandects 1. 8 out of Gaius) 18272 divini et humani juris communicatio 18273 and to the highest integrity. 18274 Ius Italicum (Digest Fifty, XV) 18275 Antoninus gave this to Tyre (Paulus, two) 18276 Consul for the fourth time, 7th December & Paulus 18277 in Constantinople 18278 & then the fun starts 18279 with the "Code" 18280 I. 3, Title: 18281 "feed 'um" 18282 The Bulgar was trying to hold onto horse sense 18283 & an impression 18284 perhaps in too general language, that 18285 Constantine was a louse 18286 "BUT by the new law," [Page 635] 18287 127 18288 "from affection alone" 18289 CODE. V. 27, the paragraph preceding 2. 18290 Code V. iv, 23,5. called also "fuss-cat" 18291 To Kung, to avoid their encirclement, 18292 To the Odes to escape abstract yatter, 18293 to Mencius, Dante, and Agassiz 18294 for Gestalt seed, 18295 pity, yes, for the infected, 18296 but maintain antisepsis, 18297 let the light pour. 18298 Apollonius made peace with the animals 18299 Was no blood on the Cyprian's altars 18300 Justinian inserted that sentence: 18301 "from affection" the novel, 127 18302 From the hawk-king 18303 Goth, Agdu 18304 Prabbu of Kopt, Queen Ash 18305 may Isis preserve thee 18306 Manis paid for the land 18307 1 bur: 60 measures, lo staio, 1 mana of silver 18308 as is said on the black obelisk 18309 somewhere about 27 0 4 18310 in the long boats east of Abydos. 18311 [Image] 18312 darkness, do you want 18313 darkness, caligine? 18314 ½ the year to get tin--- 18315 Agada, Gana ... [Page 636] 18316 ½ the year to get tin. 18317 Swans came to the meadow 18318 18319 For styrax to Pamphilia, 18320 leopards 18321 and Apollonius said to King Huey 18322 [Image] Leang 18323 [Image] Hwuy 18324 [Image] i 18325 [Image] ts'ai2 18326 [Image] fa 18327 wu2 [Image] 18328 i3 [Image] 18329 pao3 [Image] rhymed in Taxila 18330 Phraotes' tigers worship the sun. 18331 ... [Page 637] 18332 18333 ... ... 18334 III 34 18335 ... 18336 III 34 F.P. 18337 no full trans/ till 1811, 18338 remarks F. C. Conybeare, the prelector, 18339 who says it is (sic:) "lightly written" 18340 although no theologian touches it ... well? 18341 NO! not even Richardus 18342 18343 Apollonius & Richardus 18344 or, as Swedenborg says: "of societies" 18345 & that griffins dig rocks spotted with gold 18346 and the phoenix 18347
18348 as do swans for those having ear. 18349 By the nymphs ... and have ecstasy, sober 18350 and that the universe is alive 18351
18352 & keeping the Ganges on his right hand 18353 went down ten days toward the sea 18354 & the "red" sea named after Erythras 18355 not from its colour, the cyanine 18356 18357 Balàra full of myrtles and date palms 18358 a place well watered by springs 18359
18360 and they bell the boat to keep off the seals 18361 Grant, O Muses, 18362
18364 but found Ephesus full of pipers, buggars & noise. 18365 "We are the plant." said Hugo Rennert 18366 or 18367 as Homer says: 18368
18369 not merely set stone 18370 ... 18371 18372 embarking at sunset. 18373 That he passed the night on the mound of Achilles 18374 "master of tempest and fire" 18375 & he set up Palamedes 18376 an image that I, Philostratus, saw 18377 and a shrine that will hold ten people drinking. 18378 "It was not by ditch-digging and sheep's-guts ... 18379 "in Aeolis close to Methymna" 18380 in the summer lightning, close upon cock-crow. 18381 So that walking here under the larches of Paradise 18382 the stream was exceedingly clear 18383 & almost level its margin 18384 "was thrown in my way a touch-stone 18385 18386 "Hic sunt leones", 18387 Calpis, 18388 on the North side "as gold from the Heliads' poplar" 18389 and at Gadara (Cadiz) sumerian capitals to their pillars 18390
18391 for the doers of holiness 18392
18393 they may ship or swim, being secure. v. 17 [Page 639] 18394 We have already raised our stele to Musonius, 18395 the man with the spade 18396 Five, twenty two [Image] fa1-5 18397 [Image] ts'ai2 18398 29- [Image] chung 18399 as yung chung 18400 VESPASIAN a. D. 69 18401 formó nuevos archivos 18402 BUT did not show good sense in Greece. 18403 Said ANTONINUS: 18404 "Law rules the sea" 18405 meaning lex Rhodi 18406 Daughter of a sun priest in Babylon 18407 told Philostratus to set down this record 18408 of TYana 18409
18410 not particular about theoretical organizations 18411 [Image] 18412 V. 35 worth attention 18413
18414 [Page 640] 18415 & do not mow the high stalks 18416 ANTONINUS reigned 138 to 161 18417 SEVERUS and Julia Domna about 198 18418 [Image] 18419 18420 as against that schnorrer Euphrates 18421 and he said to Dion: 18422 Set it to music 18423 and sent the lion up country 18424 after sacrifice to Amasis 18425 18426 & keeping the Nile on their right hand 18427 about ten of them went with Apollonius 18428 " " 18429 "Which is all nuts" said Apollonius, 18430 "The Africans have more sense than the greeks". 18431 book Six, chap. 2 18432 Memnon of the Dawn 18433 the one word meaning to burn and be warm 18434
18436 That it is of thrones, 18437 and above them: Justice 18438 Acre, again,
18440 who sucked the venom out of his wound, 18441 and came up via Padua, 18442 for a balance of wine & wool, 18443 distraint and tolls not unbridled 18444 and in 1288 a thunderbolt passed between them 18445 this wd/ be in the time of Federico Secondo, 18446 Alfonso, St Louis, and Magnus of Norway 18447 and two years later she died and his luck went out, 18448 Edwardus, who played Baliol against the Bruce 18449 and brought the stone down to London 18450 where it is seen to this day. 18451 PACTUM SERVA 18452 Be Traist 18453 As against anyone who takes his blessings into a corner, 18454 and after that we will go up to the Cataracts 18455 18456
18457 not baffled by terror, 18458 and wanted to keep Sparta, Sparta, 18459 that the king [Image] shd/ be king 18460 [Image] 18461 18462 not a melting pot 18463 & when Athens exceded the tributes set by Aristides, 18464 Coke, after he got into Parliament, 18465 The boat of Ra-Set moves with the sun.
18467 [Image] jih 18468 [Image] hsin
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18471 enduring 5000 years. 18472 Shall the comet cease moving 18473 or the great stars be tied in one place! 18474 "Consonantium demonstratrix" 18475 Beda 18476 Deus est anima mundi, 18477 animal optimum 18478 et sempiternum. 18479 Tempus est ubique, 18480 non motus 18481 in vesperibus orbis. 18482 Expergesci thalamis, gravat serpella nimbus 18483 Mist weighs down the wild thyme plants. 18484 "In favour of the whole people". "They repeat" 18485 said Delcroix 18486 Van Buren unsmearing Talleyrand, 18487 Adams to Rush before that, in 1811 18488 And there were guilds in Byzantium. 18489 "Not political", Dante says, a 18490 "compagnevole animale" 18491 Even if some do coagulate into cities 18492 ,
18493 reproducteur, 18494 contribuable. Paradis peint 18495 but meaning to plough 18496
18497 There were many sounds in that oak-wood. 18498 Benton: when there was plenty of metal, 18499 Van Buren already desmearing Talleyrand 18500 J. A. "the whole people (devaluation)." 18501 Alexander paid the debts of his soldiery 18502 And over an arch in Vicenza, the stemma, 18503 the coat of arms, stone: "Lapo, ghibbeline exile". 18504 "Who knows but I also from some vento di siepe?" 18505 six centuries later "de gli Uberti". 18506 Queen of Heaven bring her repose 18507 18508 bringing light per diafana 18509 18510 white foam, a sea-gull 18511 And damn it there were men even in my time 18512 Nicoletti, Ramperti, Desmond Fitzgerald 18513 (the one alive in 1919) 18514 That the crystal wave mount to flood surge 18515 [Image] chin4 18516 [Image] hui1 18517 [Image] jên2 18518 The light there almost solid. 18519 YAO'S worry: to find a successor 18520 [Image] [Page 645] 18521 & the three years peace we owe Windsor 18522 '36-'39 18523 As from the terrace, Saint Bertrand 18524 to southward from Montrejeau 18525 Elder Lightfoot is not downhearted, 18526 Elder Lightfoot is cert'nly 18527 not 18528 downhearted, 18529 He observes a design in the Process. 18530 Miss Ida by the bars in the jail house Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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