The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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15213 Immaculata, Introibo 15214 for those who drink of the bitterness 15215 Perpetua, Agatha, Anastasia 15216 saeculorum 15217 repos donnez à cils 15218 senza termine funge Immaculata Regina 15219 Les larmes que j'ai creées m'inondent 15220 Tard, très tard je t'ai connue, la Tristesse, 15221 I have been hard as youth sixty years 15222 if calm be after tempest 15223 that the ants seem to wobble 15224 as the morning sun catches their shadows 15225 (Nadasky, Duett, McAllister, 15226 also Comfort K.P. special mention 15227 on sick call Penrieth, Turner, Toth hieri 15228 (no fortune and with a name to come) 15229 Bankers, Seitz, Hildebrand and Cornelison 15230 Armstrong special mention K.P. 15231 White gratia Bedell gratia 15232 Wiseman (not William) africanus. 15233 with a smoky torch thru the unending 15234 labyrinth of the souterrain 15235 or remembering Carleton let him celebrate Christ in the grain 15236 and if the corn cat be beaten 15237 Demeter has lain in my furrow [Page 514] 15238 This wind is lighter than swansdown 15239 the day moves not at all 15240 (Zupp, Bufford, and Bohon) 15241 men of no fortune and with a name to come 15242 his helmet is used for a pisspot 15243 this helmet is used for my footbath 15244 Elpenor can count the shingle under Zoagli 15245 Pepitone was wasting toothwash 15246 as I lay by the drain hole 15247 the guard's opinion is lower than that of the 15248 prisoners 15249 o. t. a. 15250 Oh to be in England now that Winston's out 15251 Now that there's room for doubt 15252 And the bank may be the nation's 15253 And the long years of patience 15254 And labour's vacillations 15255 May have let the bacon come home, 15256 To watch how they'll slip and slide 15257 watch how they'll try to hide 15258 the real portent 15259 To watch a while from the tower 15260 where dead flies lie thick over the old charter 15261 forgotten, oh quite forgotten 15262 but confirming John's first one, 15263 and still there if you climb over attic rafters; 15264 to look at the fields; are they tilled? 15265 is the old terrace alive as it might be 15266 with a whole colony 15267 if money be free again? [Page 515] 15268 Chesterton's England of has-been and why-not, 15269 or is it all rust, ruin, death duties and mortgages 15270 and the great carriage yard empty 15271 and more pictures gone to pay taxes 15272 When a dog is tall but 15273 not so tall as all that 15274 that dog is a Talbot 15275 (a bit long in the pasterns?) 15276 When a butt is ½ as tall as a whole butt 15277 That butt is a small butt 15278 Let backe and side go bare 15279 and the old kitchen left as the monks had left it 15280 and the rest as time has cleft it. 15281 [Only shadows enter my tent 15282 as men pass between me and the sunset,] 15283 beyond the eastern barbed wire 15284 a sow with nine boneen 15285 matronly as any duchess at Claridge's 15286 and for that Christmas at Maurie Hewlett's 15287 Going out from Southampton 15288 they passed the car by the dozen 15289 who would not have shown weight on a scale 15290 riding, riding 15291 for Noel the green holly 15292 Noel, Noel, the green holly 15293 A dark night for the holly 15294 That would have been Salisbury plain, and I have not thought of 15295 the Lady Anne for this twelve years 15296 Nor of Le Portel 15297 How tiny the panelled room where they stabbed him 15298 In her lap, almost, La Stuarda
15300 for the leopards and broom plants 15301 Tudor indeed is gone and every rose, 15302 Blood-red, blanch-white that in the sunset glows 15303 Cries: "Blood, Blood, Blood!" against the gothic stone 15304 Of England, as the Howard or Boleyn knows. 15305 Nor seeks the carmine petal to infer; 15306 Nor is the white bud Time's inquisitor 15307 Probing to know if its new-gnarled root 15308 Twists from York's head or belly of Lancaster; 15309 Or if a rational soul should stir, perchance, 15310 Within the stem or summer shoot to advance 15311 Contrition's utmost throw, seeking in thee 15312 But oblivion, not thy forgiveness, FRANCE. 15313 as the young lizard extends his leopard spots 15314 along the grass-blade seeking the green midge half an ant-size 15315 and the Serpentine will look just the same 15316 and the gulls be as neat on the pond 15317 and the sunken garden unchanged 15318 and God knows what else is left of our London 15319 my London, your London 15320 and if her green elegance 15321 remains on this side of my rain ditch 15322 puss lizard will lunch on some other T-bone 15323 sunset grand couturier.
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15324 Zeus lies in Ceres' bosom 15325 Taishan is attended of loves 15326 under Cythera, before sunrise 15327 and he said: "Hay aquí mucho catolicismo---(sounded 15328 catolithismo) 15329 y muy poco reliHion" 15330 and he said: "Yo creo que los reyes desaparecen" 15331 (Kings will, I think, disappear) 15332 That was Padre José Elizondo 15333 in 1906 and in 1917 15334 or about 1917 15335 and Dolores said: "Come pan, niño," eat bread, me lad 15336 Sargent had painted her 15337 before he descended 15338 (i.e. if he descended 15339 but in those days he did thumb sketches, 15340 impressions of the Velázquez in the Museo del Prado 15341 and books cost a peseta, 15342 brass candlesticks in proportion, 15343 hot wind came from the marshes 15344 and death-chill from the mountains. 15345 And later Bowers wrote: "but such hatred, 15346 I had never conceived such" 15347 and the London reds wouldn't show up his friends 15348 (i.e. friends of Franco 15349 working in London) and in Alcázar 15350 forty years gone, they said: go back to the station to eat 15351 you can sleep here for a peseta" 15352 goat bells tinkled all night 15353 and the hostess grinned: Eso es luto, haw! 15354 mi marido es muerto 15355 (it is mourning, my husband is dead) [Page 518] 15356 when she gave me paper to write on 15357 with a black border half an inch or more deep, 15358 say 5/8ths, of the locanda 15359 "We call all foreigners frenchies" 15360 and the egg broke in Cabranez' pocket, 15361 thus making history. Basil says 15362 they beat drums for three days 15363 till all the drumheads were busted 15364 (simple village fiesta) 15365 and as for his life in the Canaries ... 15366 Possum observed that the local portagoose folk dance 15367 was danced by the same dancers in divers localities 15368 in political welcome ... 15369 the technique of demonstration 15370 Cole studied that (not G.D.H., Horace) 15371 "You will find" said old André Spire, 15372 that every man on that board (Crédit Agricole) 15373 has a brother-in-law 15374 "You the one, I the few" 15375 said John Adams 15376 speaking of fears in the abstract 15377 to his volatile friend Mr Jefferson. 15378 (To break the pentameter, that was the first heave) 15379 or as Jo Bard says: they never speak to each other, 15380 if it is baker and concierge visibly 15381 it is La Rouchefoucauld and de Maintenon audibly. 15382 "Te cavero le budella" 15383 "La corata a te" 15384 In less than a geological epoch 15385 said Henry Mencken 15386 "Some cook, some do not cook 15387 some things cannot be altered" 15388 . . . . . 15389 What counts is the cultural level, 15390 thank Benin for this table ex packing box
15392 from a mask fine as any in Frankfurt 15393 "It'll get you offn th' groun" 15394 Light as the branch of Kuanon 15395 And at first disappointed with shoddy 15396 the bare ram-shackle quais, but then saw the 15397 high buggy wheels 15398 and was reconciled, 15399 George Santayana arriving in the port of Boston 15400 and kept to the end of his life that faint thethear 15401 of the Spaniard 15402 as a grace quasi imperceptible 15403 as did Muss the v for u of Romagna 15404 and said the grief was a full act 15405 repeated for each new condoleress 15406 working up to a climax. 15407 and George Horace said he wd/ "get Beveridge" (Senator) 15408 Beveridge wouldn't talk and he wouldn't write for the papers 15409 but George got him by campin' in his hotel 15410 and assailin' him at lunch breakfast an' dinner 15411 three articles 15412 and my ole man went on hoein' corn 15413 while George was a-tellin' him, 15414 come across a vacant lot 15415 where you'd occasionally see a wild rabbit 15416 or mebbe only a loose one 15417 AOI! 15418 a leaf in the current 15419 at my grates no Althea 15420 libretto Yet 15421 [Image] Ere the season died a-cold 15422 Borne upon a zephyr's shoulder 15423 I rose through the aureate sky 15424 Lawes and Jenkyns guard thy rest 15425 Dolmetsch ever be thy guest,
15427 To enforce both the grave and the acute? 15428 Has he curved us the bowl of the lute? 15429 Lawes and Jenkyns guard thy rest 15430 Dolmetsch ever be thy guest 15431 Hast 'ou fashioned so airy a mood 15432 To draw up leaf from the root? 15433 Hast 'ou found a cloud so light 15434 As seemed neither mist nor shade? 15435 Then resolve me, tell me aright 15436 If Waller sang or Dowland played. 15437 Your eyen two wol sleye me sodenly 15438 I may the beauté of hem nat susteyne 15439 And for 180 years almost nothing. 15440 Ed ascoltando al leggier mormorio 15441 there came new subtlety of eyes into my tent, 15442 whether of spirit or hypostasis, 15443 but what the blindfold hides 15444 or at carneval 15445 nor any pair showed anger 15446 Saw but the eyes and stance between the eyes, 15447 colour, diastasis, 15448 careless or unaware it had not the 15449 whole tent's room 15450 nor was place for the full 15451 interpass, penetrate 15452 casting but shade beyond the other lights 15453 sky's clear 15454 night's sea 15455 green of the mountain pool 15456 shone from the unmasked eyes in half-mask's space. 15457 What thou lovest well remains, [Page 521] 15458 the rest is dross 15459 What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee 15460 What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage 15461 Whose world, or mine or theirs 15462 or is it of none? 15463 First came the seen, then thus the palpable 15464 Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell, 15465 What thou lovest well is thy true heritage 15466 What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee 15467 The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. 15468 Pull down thy vanity, it is not man 15469 Made courage, or made order, or made grace, 15470 Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. 15471 Learn of the green world what can be thy place 15472 In scaled invention or true artistry, 15473 Pull down thy vanity, 15474 Paquin pull down! 15475 The green casque has outdone your elegance. 15476 "Master thyself, then others shall thee beare" 15477 Pull down thy vanity 15478 Thou art a beaten dog beneath the hail, 15479 A swollen magpie in a fitful sun, 15480 Half black half white 15481 Nor knowst'ou wing from tail 15482 Pull down thy vanity 15483 How mean thy hates 15484 Fostered in falsity, 15485 Pull down thy vanity, 15486 Rathe to destroy, niggard in charity, 15487 Pull down thy vanity, 15488 I say pull down. 15489 But to have done instead of not doing 15490 this is not vanity
15492 That a Blunt should open 15493 To have gathered from the air a live tradition 15494 or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame 15495 This is not vanity. 15496 Here error is all in the not done, 15497 all in the diffidence that faltered ...
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15498 When with his hunting dog I see a cloud 15499 "Guten Morgen, Mein Herr" yells the black boy 15500 from the jo-cart 15501 (Jeffers, Lovell and Harley 15502 also Mr Walls who has lent me a razor 15503 Persha, Nadasky and Harbell) 15504 Swinburne my only miss 15505 and I didn't know he'd been to see Landor 15506 and they told me this that an' tother 15507 and when old Mathews went he saw the three teacups 15508 two for Watts Dunton who liked to let his tea cool, 15509 So old Elkin had only one glory 15510 He did carry Algernon's suit case once 15511 when he, Elkin, first came to London. 15512 But given what I know now I'd have 15513 got thru it somehow ... Dirce's shade 15514 or a blackjack. 15515 When the french fishermen hauled him out he 15516 recited 'em 15517 might have been Aeschylus 15518 till they got into Le Portel, or wherever 15519 in the original 15520 "On the Atreides' roof" 15521 "like a dog ... and a good job 15522 ... 15523 hac dextera mortus 15524 dead by this hand 15525 believe Lytton first saw Blunt in the bull ring [Page 524] 15526 as it might have been brother Packard 15527 and "our brother Percy" 15528 Basinio's manuscript with the 15529 greek moulds in the margin 15530 Otis, Soncino, 15531 the "marble men" shall pass into nothingness, 15532 Three birds on the wire 15533 so requested Mr Clowes to sleep on the same 15534 and as to who wd/ pay for the composition 15535 if same were not used 15536 (Elkin Mathews, my bantam) 15537 After all" said Mr Birrell, "it is only the old story 15538 of Tom Moore and Rogers" 15539 Her Ladyship arose in the night 15540 and moved all the furniture 15541 (that is her Ladyship YX) 15542 her Ladyship Z disliked dining alone and 15543 The proud shall not lie by the proud 15544 amid dim green lighted with candles 15545 Mabel Beardsley's red head for a glory 15546 Mr Masefield murmuring: Death 15547 and Old Neptune meaning something unseizable 15548 in a discussion of Flaubert 15549 Miss Tomczyk, the medium 15550 baffling the society for metaphysical research 15551 and the idea that CONversation...... 15552 should not utterly wither 15553 even I can remember 15554 at 18 Woburn Buildings 15555 Said Mr Tancred 15556 of the Jerusalem and Sicily Tancreds, to Yeats, 15557 "If you would read us one of your own choice 15558 and 15559 perfect [Page 525] 15560 lyrics" 15561 and more's the pity that Dickens died twice 15562 with the disappearance of Tancred 15563 and for all that old Ford's conversation was better, 15564 consisting in res non verba, 15565 despite William's anecdotes, in that Fordie 15566 never dented an idea for a phrase's sake
15568 (Cythera Cythera) 15569 With Dirce in one bark convey'd 15570 Be glad poor beaste, love follows after thee 15571 Till the cricket hops 15572 but does not chirrp in the drill field 15573 8th day of September 15574 f f 15575 d 15576 g
15577 write the birds in their treble scale 15578 Terreus! Terreus! 15579 there are no righteous wars in "The Spring and Au- 15580 tumn" 15581 that is, perfectly right on one side or the other 15582 total right on either side of the battle line 15583 and the news is a long time moving 15584 a long time in arriving 15585 thru the impenetrable 15586 crystalline, indestructible 15587 ignorance of locality 15588 The news was quicker in Troy's time 15589 a match on Cnidos, a glow worm on Mitylene, 15590 Till forty years since, Reithmuller indignant: [Page 526] 15591 "Fvy! in Tdaenmarck efen dh' beasantz gnow him," 15592 meaning Whitman, exotic, still suspect 15593 four miles from Camden 15594 "O troubled reflection 15595 "O Throat, O throbbing heart" 15596 How drawn, O GEA TERRA, 15597 what draws as thou drawest 15598 till one sink into thee by an arm's width 15599 embracing thee. Drawest, 15600 truly thou drawest. 15601 Wisdom lies next thee, 15602 simply, past metaphor. 15603 Where I lie let the thyme rise 15604 and basilicum 15605 let the herbs rise in April abundant 15606 By Ferrara was buried naked, fu Nicolo 15607 e di qua di la del Po, 15608 wind: 15609 lie into earth to the breast bone, to the left shoulder 15610 Kipling suspected it 15611 to the height of ten inches or over 15612 man, earth: two halves of the tally 15613 but I will come out of this knowing no one 15614 neither they me 15615 connubium terrae 15616 , mysterium 15617 fluid o'erflowed me 15618 lay in the fluid ; 15619 that lie 15620 under the air's solidity 15621 drunk with of 15622 fluid , strong as the undertow 15623 of the wave receding 15624 but that a man should live in that further terror, and live [Page 527] 15625 the loneliness of death came upon me 15626 (at 3 P.M., for an instant) 15627 15628 three solemn half notes 15629 their white downy chests black-rimmed 15630 on the middle wire 15631 periplum
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15632 15633 HUDOR et Pax 15634 Gemisto stemmed all from Neptune 15635 hence the Rimini bas reliefs 15636 Sd Mr Yeats (W. B.) "Nothing affects these people 15637 Except our conversation" 15638 lux enim 15639 ignis est accidens and, 15640 wrote the prete in his edition of Scotus: 15641 Hilaritas the virtue hilaritas 15642 the queen stitched King Carolus' shirts or whatever 15643 while Erigena put greek tags in his excellent verses 15644 in fact an excellent poet, Paris 15645 toujours Pari' 15646 (Charles le Chauve) 15647 and you might find a bit of enamel 15648 a bit of true blue enamel 15649 on a metal pyx or whatever 15650 omnia, quae sunt, lumina sunt, or whatever 15651 so they dug up his bones in the time of De Montfort 15652 (Simon) 15653 Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel 15654 and Uncle William dawdling around Notre Dame 15655 in search of whatever 15656 paused to admire the symbol 15657 with Notre Dame standing inside it 15658 Whereas in St Etienne
15660 mermaids, that carving, 15661 in the drenched tent there is quiet 15662 sered eyes are at rest 15663 the rain beat as with colour of feldspar 15664 blue as the flying fish off Zoagli 15665 pax, 15666 the sage 15667 delighteth in water 15668 the humane man has amity with the hills 15669 as the grass grows by the weirs 15670 thought Uncle William consiros 15671 as the grass on the roof of St What's his name 15672 near "Cane e Gatto" 15673 soll deine Liebe sein 15674 it would be about a-level the windows 15675 the grass would, or I dare say above that 15676 when they bless the wax for the Palio 15677 Olim de Malatestis 15678 with Maria's face there in the fresco 15679 painted two centuries sooner, 15680 at least that 15681 before she wore it 15682 As Montino's 15683 in that family group of about 1820 15684 not wholly Hardy's material 15685 or 15686 as he was standing below the altars 15687 of the spirits of rain
15689 it moves forward" 15690 to the phantom mountain above the cloud 15691 But in the caged panther's eyes: 15692 "Nothing. Nothing that you can do ..." 15693 green pool, under green of the jungle, 15694 caged: "Nothing, nothing that you can do." 15695 , your eyes are like clouds 15696 Nor can who has passed a month in the death cells 15697 believe in capital punishment 15698 No man who has passed a month in the death cells 15699 believes in cages for beasts 15700 , your eyes are like the clouds over Taishan 15701 When some of the rain has fallen 15702 and half remains yet to fall 15703 The roots go down to the river's edge 15704 and the hidden city moves upward 15705 white ivory under the bark 15706 With clouds over Taishan-Chocorua 15707 when the blackberry ripens 15708 and now the new moon faces Taishan 15709 one must count by the dawn star 15710 Dryad, thy peace is like water 15711 There is September sun on the pools 15712 Plura diafana 15713 Heliads lift the mist from the young willows 15714 there is no base seen under Taishan
15716 the poplar tips float in brightness 15717 only the stockade posts stand 15718 And now the ants seem to stagger 15719 as the dawn sun has trapped their shadows, 15720 this breath wholly covers the mountains 15721 it shines and divides 15722 it nourishes by its rectitude 15723 does no injury 15724 overstanding the earth it fills the nine fields 15725 to heaven 15726 Boon companion to equity 15727 it joins with the process 15728 lacking it, there is inanition 15729 When the equities are gathered together Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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