The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]



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20630 had one vision only, and if the stars be but unicorns ...

20631 or took the stars for those antilopes.

20632 HS'UAN TSUNG, 1389 natus, painted kittens,

20633 and Joey said, "are they for real"

20634 before primitives in the Mellon Gallery,

20635 Washington

20636 "Should", said H. J., "for humanity's credit

20637 feign their existence

20638 With the sun and moon on her shoulders,

20639 the star-discs sewn on her coat

20640 at Li Chiang, the snow range,

20641 a wide meadow

20642 and the 2dto---1mba's face (exorcist's)

20643 muy simpático

20644 by the waters of Stone Drum,

20645 the two aces

20646 Mint grows at the foot of the Snow Range

20647 the first moon is the tiger's,

20648 Pheasant calls out of bracken

20649 Rossoni: "così lo stato ..." etcetera

20650 Delcroix: "che magnifica!"

20651 (prescrittibile)

20652 he perceived it:

20653 The green spur, the white meadow

20654 "May their pond be full;


[Page 727]
20655 The son have his father's arm

20656 and good hearing;

20657 (noun graph upright; adjective sideways)

20658 "His horse's mane flowing

20659 His body and soul are at peace."
[Page 728]

CII
20660 This I had from Kalupso

20661 who had it from Hermes

20662 "eleven literates and, I suppose,

20663 Dwight L. Morrow"

20664 the body elected,

20665 residence required, not as in England

20666 "A cargo of Iron"

20667 lied Pallas

20668 and as to why Penelope waited

20669 keinas ... e Orgei. line 639. Leucothoe

20670 rose as an incense bush,

20671 resisting Apollo,

20672 Orchamus, Babylon

20673 And after 500 years

20674 still offered that shrub to the sea-gull,

20675 Phaecians,

20676 she being of Cadmus line

20677 The snow's lace washed here as sea-foam
20678 [Image] But the lot of 'em, Yeats, Possum, Old Wyndham
20679 had no ground to stand on

20680 Black shawls still worn for Demeter

20681 in Venice,

20682 in my time,

20683 my young time

20684 OIOS TELESAI ERGON ... EROS TE


[Page 729]
20685 The cat talks

20686 (mao) with a greek inflection.

20687 Barley is the marrow of men,

20688 40 centess' in my time

20689 an orzo.

20690 At Procope, one franc fifteen for a luncheon

20691 and ten centimes tip for the waiter. Noi altri borghesi

20692 could not go down into the piazza. We thought we could

20693 control ...

20694 And that ye sail over lithe water ...

20695 under eyelids ...

20696 Winkelmann noted the eyelids,

20697 Yeats two months on a sonnet of Ronsard's.

20698 "Jacques Père" on a sign near Le Portel,

20699 and belgians would pronounce it.

20700 Eva has improved that line about Freiheit.

20701 "50 more years on The Changes"

20702 or is said to have said that he could have.

20703 Swan broke his knee cap on landing

20704 having scaled that 30 foot wall,

20705 and maintained his serenity,

20706 another chap hung all night in the trail ropes

20707 and saw two other men fall.

20708 Took the Z for the tail of the KatZe

20709 vide Frobenius on relative Dummheit of pupil and teacher

20710 "The libraries" (Ingrid) "have no Domvile." Jan 1955

20711 as was natural

20712 "pseudos d'ouk ... ei gar pepneumenos"

20713 seed barley with the sacrifice (Lacedaemon)

20714 But with Leucothoe's mind in that incense


[Page 730]
20715 all Babylon could not hold it down.

20716 "for my bitch eyes" in Ilion

20717 copper and wine like a bear cub's

20718 in sunlight, thus Atalant

20719 the colour as aithiops

20720 the gloss probably

20721 oinops

20722 as lacquer in sunlight

20723 haliporphuros,

20724 russet-gold

20725 in the air, extant, not carmine, not flame, oriXalko,

20726 le xaladines

20727 lit by the torch-flare,

20728 and from the nature, the sign.

20729 Small lions are there in benevolence

20730 to the left of San Marco

20731 AISSOUSIN,

20732 the spirits,

20733 Berenice, a late constellation.

20734 "Same books" said Tcheou

20735 they ought to be brother-like.

20736 Crystaline,

20737 south slope for juniper,

20738 Wild goose follows the sun-bird,

20739 in mountains; salt, copper, coral,

20740 dead words out of fashion

20741 KAI ALOGA,

20742 nature APHANASTON,

20743 the pine needles glow as red wire

20744 OU THELEI EAEAN EIS KOSMOU


[Page 731]
20745 they want to burst out of the universe

20746 amnis herbidas ripas

20747 Antoninus;

20748 Julian

20749 would not be worshipped

20750 "So thick the dead could not fall"

20751 Marcellinus

20752 "dead chap ahead of me with his head split

20753 could not fall."

20754 XXIII, 6, and there also

20755 Assyrios fines ingressus,

20756 Built granaries, sueta annona,

20757 naturally labled "apostate".

20758 Quem mihi febricula eripuit,

20759 Domitian, infaustus

20760 tried to buy peace with money.


[Page 732]

CIII


20761 1850: gt objection to any honesty in the White House

20762 '56, an M. C. from California

20763 killed one of the waiters at the Willard

20764 22nd. Brooks thrashed Sumner in Camera Senatus

20765 "respectful of our own rights and of others"

20766 for which decent view he was ousted

20767 Homestead versus kolschoz

20768 Rome versus Babylon

20769 no sense of quiddity in the sovreignty

20770 i. e. the power to issue

20771 The slaves were red herring,

20772 land not secure against issuers

20773 Emerson, Agassiz, Alcot

20774 at Hawthorne's funeral

20775 names of the principal bond-holders

20776 ---persuade Spain to sell Cuba

20777 via Belmont, not via Sickles;

20778 land to all veterans: Mommsen

20779 160 acres, 33rd Congress

20780 "I see its relation to one thing,

20781 Hui sees its relation to ten."

20782 Monetary literacy, sans which a loss of freedom is consequent

20783 cunicoli, canalesque

20784 and the people (min) ate

20785 caelum renovabat,

20786 animals dance,

20787 manes come.
[Page 733]
20788 Protocol Jan. 1831: Belgium neutral

20789 in perpetuity

20790 Trying (T. C. P.) 50 years later to keep some of the

20791 non-interest-bearing etc.

20792 in circulation

20793 as currency

20794 Still market, no use to brokers.

20795 France, after Talleyrand started

20796 one war in Europe.

20797 Bismarck: no war after '70, that was his aim

20798 He said: No more after '70

20799 Casimir put Napoleon back on his Column

20800 12th April, Journal des Debats,

20801 1831

20802 that bitch Mme de Lieven

20803 that bitch Mme de Staël

20804 Bolivar dead, who else was there?

20805 Tolosa, 1919, Gubbio,

20806 on pouvait manger

20807 "Europe" said Picabia: exhausted

20808 by the conquest of Alsace Lorraine

20809 T. to Broglie Ap 9, '33

20810 as I recall it there was no such thing as public

20811 opinion (Vienna)

20812 Metternich destroyed Maria Theresa. Maremma

20813 Hroosia,

20814 "tranne nella casa del re"

20815 B. Mussolini

20816 to some chap from Predappio

20817 not yet, so far as I know, written down.


[Page 734]
20818 Lugubrious Knole,

20819 Capture of Warsaw

20820 Paris, at Palais Royal

20821 "where they are rather badly off for society"

20822 de Vaux talked of nothing but bullfights

20823 not only 32 million subjects, but

20824 pretend to govern all Europe

20825 That he (the Archbishop) had not quite the grasp

20826 St Leu, Beauharnais, Tascher

20827 given to M's'lle Hortense by the Citizen Talleyrand

20828 "a sapphire, and a bit of the cross

20829 true cross, exhumed with Charlemagne's skeleton.

20830 Mme de Genlis:

20831 six paintings by me; fruits, insects, animals

20832 Bismarck thought centralization bitched France

20833 Ivar Kreuger, according to Lorrimer's paper

20834 a titan, and more than,

20835 Edishu added a zero to the number of Krauts murdered

20836 in Poland

20837 1831, in New York State: that debtors be not imprisoned

20838 "Last superior OUT of his cabinet"

20839 John Quinn re/ Lansing's departure.

20840 and at three o'clock in the morning ...

20841 my ex-partner

20842 "wuz

20843 sekkertary

20844 of State."

20845 1841 Fillimore: Wolverine built in Pittsburg

20846 for a lake parity.

20847 Telegraph bill. 3 March '43


[Page 735]
20848 "Not with a cold thing"

20849 said Griffith,

20850 "can't move 'em"

20851 ut delectet

20852 Mat Quay read greek in secret. Mr. Beecher

20853 carried some rusty cannon-balls into his pulpit

20854 that were allegedly from Bunker Hill, Boston.

20855 and at Nara, a. D. 784 was an art show:

20856 Hindoo, greek, Persian

20857 90 years from Perry to Sow-face

20858 "the colossal conceit of Americans," said Mr. Griffis, a. D. 1915

20859 Heaven made hearing and seeing men have the rule

20860 cheu

20861 i regent

20862 Hia caeca ratione agebat

20863 Absolutely drop idea of putting Chase

20864 into the Treasury

20865 "14 killed," Stanton to Buchanan, "greatly below former reports

20866 of a thousand"

20867 Present my Compliments to Miss Lane.

20868 Biddle for conscription even in Eighteen Fourteen

20869 A.J. to Buchanan: unable to perceive that U. S. interests

20870 will be safer in other hands than her own.

20871 from the Hermitage.

20872 Foreign Ministers must drive with 4 horses

20873 and a postillion

20874 St Petersburg '32

20875 "I cannot, I fear, with truth defend


[Page 736]
20876 the chastity of the Empress,

20877 Emperor thinks brits weary of

20878 Constitution,

20879 The french are a singular people.

20880 Napoleon's taxes less than ½ now at Bergheim."

20881 Buchanan got a treaty out of the hRooshuns

20882 "worst the art of man" (speaking of bank system)

20883 could devise,

20884 English income tax odious, has risen to seven pence in the

20885 pound

20886 Vic's character without blemish, London 1852

20887 The Daily Telegraph has been bought over

20888 and (his "Inaugural")

20889 that men have sunk to consider the mere material value

20890 of the Union

20891 a grant from States of limited powers

20892 nec Templum aedificavit

20893 nec restituit rem

20894 but not his fault by a damn sight.

20895 Winter in Pontus distressing

20896 but still at Sulmona the lion heads,

20897 Federico wrote of the Falcon

20898 and Orsi: "Anch'io sono

20899 antichità Siracusana."

20900 Arab coins found in mounds in Sweden

20901 under Fortuna

20902 Raleigh noted that Genova's loans were not productive

20903 "all they have left is their usury"

20904 Wodan ministrat virtutem

20905 Frico, voluptatem,


[Page 737]
20906 Agelmund reigned 33 years.

20907 "quae a thure

20908 solebant sacrificiis" ...

20909 that was in Tuscany.

20910 In this province is Roma,

20911 Brennus came here for the wine,

20912 liking its quality

20913 Lupus comes itineris, Rothar arianae haeresios---

20914 edicti prologo

20915 dope already in use

20916 "Puteum de testiculis impleam clericorum"

20917 dixit Alchis

20918 would fill full a well with priests' balls,

20919 heretics', naturally

20920 Das Leihkapital.

20921 And there is, of course, the Mensdorf letter

20922 that has had (1958)

20923 no publicity.


[Page 738]

CIV
20924 Na Khi talk made out of wind noise,

20925 And North Khi, not to be heard amid sounds of the forest

20926 but to fit in with them unperceived by the game,

20927 But when the young lout was selling the old lout

20928 the idea of betraying Mihailovitch

20929 The air of the room became heavy so that young S.

20930 Resigned from the F. O. and "went into the City"---

20931 Banners they took after Lepanto

20932 but now obtain "control of the outlets"

20933 to keep down printed quality
20934 Ling [Image] by ling only:
20935 semina.

20936 Flames withered; the wind blew confusion


20937 [Image]
20938 And a $ to look like a franc,

20939 the franc worth a centesimo

20940 1 fr. 15 Procope,

20941 Dondo at the Tabarin,

20942 At Moulin Rouge no admittance without a starched collar

20943 nor with a cap, at the Tabarin.

20944 Degas' eye at La Concorde,

20945 splintered light, Seurat's,

20946 or that of Pitagora

20947 Disraeli, Wolff Henry (double ff)


[Page 739]
20948 bitching England

20949 and by-passing Parliament;

20950 In metal cylinders, swallowed by camels

20951 who are then killed after passing the frontier

20952 de l'audace, PANURGIA, & heroin.

20953 in Xreia, to dissociate demand from the need.

20954 "Good chaps" said Schmidt

20955 "damn shame we have to fight 'em."

20956 Hate is not born in the trenches

20957 nor among 2nd. lieutenants.

20958 Old Rocke (wit an -e terminal not the botanist)

20959 learned Abyssinia,

20960 Sammy's nevvy got the gold out of the palace bed-room

20961 Londres' books neglected,

20962 the French did not learn them.

20963 and there is

20964 no glow such as of pine-needles burning

20965 Without 2muan 1bpo

20966 no reality

20967 Wind over snow-slope agitante

20968 nos otros

20969 calescimus

20970 Against jade

20971 calescimus,

20972 and the jade weathers dust-swirl.

20973 Murare, tradurre:

20974 Pope Nicolo had those two passions.

20975 Gained for the latin tongue

20976 (Valla)

20977 latinitas


[Page 740]
20978 Bassinio left greek tags in his margins

20979 moulding the cadence

20980 Uncle Carlo purged the mouth of that river

20981 the Rubicon

20982 with russet sails (Wieland)

20983 at the landing

20984 A lick here, a lick there

20985 and at least got the torpedo boat overland,

20986 The Pollok was hooked by false promise:

20987 "black sea"

20988 "help by the black sea"

20989 only a pollok could have swallowed that promise

20990 Of the blue sky and a wild-cat,

20991 Pitonessa

20992 The small breasts snow-soft over tripod

20993 [Image] under the cloud

20994 the three voices

20995 And stopped (in lucid intervals)

20996 the digging of metals,

20997 Once gold was

20998 by ants

20999 out of burrows

21000 not
21001 pao three [Image]
21002 This is not treasure.

21003 Call you tell pao three from pao four, a wild cat:


21004 [Image] da radice torbida

21005 is no clarity


[Page 741]
21006 And who try to use the mind for the senses

21007 drive screws with a hammer

21008 maalesh

21009 Adolf furious from perception.

21010 But there is a blindness that comes from inside---

21011 they try to explain themselves out of nullity.

21012 "Beg the gentleman to go home AT ONCE

21013 say I will call on him."

21014 THAT is politeness

21015 And the cap for a forester

21016 showing nuance.

21017 1910: Pears' soap for lamas

21018 Les Douze unconscious of Fordie,

21019 Among medicos: Ambroise Paré

21020 before Zeus, six bluejays before him

21021 THEMIS against leagues of princes

21022 Said Yo-Yo:

21023 "What part ob yu iz deh poEM??"

21024 of the vicinage, by his peers

21025 And to raise up guilds

21026 in time of the moon kings

21027 mitred by consecration of light

21028 "Wash yu feet?

21029 tread strange lan'."

21030 Luigi in hill paths

21031 chews wheat at sunrise,

21032 that grain, his communion.

21033 And if the stars be but unicorns,

21034 light for lasso.

21035 Yseult is dead, and Walter,


[Page 742]
21036 and Fordie,

21037 familiares

21038 "And how my olde friend

21039 ---eh---eh

21040 HOWells?

21041 can "etcetera

21042 Remy's word was "milésiennes"

21043 William's: monoceros,

21044 vide his book plate.

21045 The production IS the beloved.

21046 And Gladstone took a little packet of tea to

21047 Miss What's-her-name, Palmerston's fancy

21048 but did not sell England

21049 for four million quid to ... (deleted ...

21050 Suez Canal shares

21051 Said Hollis (Christopher)

21052 Regius ... (deleted) Professorships

21053 for falsification

21054 and Coke disappeared from curricula.

21055 Von Bülow got news from the agencies:

21056 France betrayed Talleyrand,

21057 "Pickin' daisies" "He (Wells) won't have

21058 an opinion."

21059 Thus Orage respected belatedly. "Nicht Bosheit"

21060 said Margherita Regina, or one of 'em, "DUMMheit".

21061 Mirabeau had it worse, Ovid much worse in Pontus.

21062 "No sooner in Goa

21063 than they started uprooting spice trees,

21064 Intorcetta's portrait is still there in Sicily

21065 with an unreadable text on his fan


[Page 743]
21066 Hence Webster, Voltaire and Leibnitz

21067 by phyllotaxis

21068 in leaf-grain

21069 But in Venice more affirmations

21070 of individual men

21071 From Selvo to Franchetti, than any elsewhere.

21072 Po like a map beneath us

21073 "Very cleverly drained"

21074 said the prisoner's escort.

21075 Larranaga

21076 saw fashion an element:

21077 No science without clear definitions.

21078 and there is a style of the period

21079 "My Chauncey Alcot

21080 If you'll bee

21081 my Molly

21082 O!"

21083 Moral scruple unknown to financiers

21084 at THAT time

21085 a common custom in business.

21086 Lukie Ionides: will do, a greek will

21087 ANYTHING

21088 till he gets Twenty Thousand

21089 (meaning quid sterling)

21090 after that, he sees that it pays to be honest.

21091 Pulchra documenta

21092 Bülow from agencies

21093 "don't waste time getting into papers"

21094 Get the agencies.

21095 and to summarize:


[Page 744]
21096 Gold was in control of the Pontifex,

21097 standard at Byzance

21098 and El Melek

21099 until 1204.

21100 kalos kagathos

21101 Del Mar cites 12 cases of tickets

21102 as from Iron in Spartan coinage

21103 In splendour of blue-jays

21104 Cythera PAGGKALA

21105 Mond killed the English Review

21106 and Ford went to Paris (an interval)

21107 Village festival on the Quatorze

21108 Brits paid out of french pocket

21109 one whole installment;

21110 Alex, the debts of his soldiers

21111 And as for what happened after the king lost exclusivity

21112 even Del Mar gasps with astonishment

21113 McNair Wilson, Larranaga, or Tremaine at 2 in the morning

21114 "Fer some gawd damn fool reason ...

21115 no more sense than pill box hats where might be Gains-

21116 boroughs,"

21117 referring to prescrittibile

21118 or

21119 What a government usefully COULD do.

21120 False middles serve neither commerce

21121 nor the NOOS in activity

21122 That fine old word (Stink Saunders' word) "an Independence"

21123 [Image] pen yeh

[Page 745]
21124 Homestead versus kolschoz,

21125 advice to farms, not control

21126 tessera, Monreale,

21127 Topaz, God can sit on.

21128 For 30 years nothing of interest occurred in that country.

21129 but the Burgomeister's Schwager

21130 mistrusted Fetzen Papier

21131 Where deer's feet make dust in shadow

21132 at wood's edge.

21133 curet cogitare perennia

21134 foung houang li i

21135 varnish and silk is their tribute

21136 Iu's weights are still in the treasury.
[Page 746]

CV

21137 Feb. 1956



21138 Is this a divagation:

21139 Talleyrand saved Europe for a century

21140 France betrayed Talleyrand;

21141 Germany, Bismarck.

21142 And Muss saved, rem salvavit,

21143 in Spain

21144 il salvabile.
21145 [Image] semina motuum
21146 From Sulmona

21147 the lion-fount---

21148 must be Sulmona, Ovidio's,

21149 Federico noted the hawk form

21150 and no one has yet translated "Il Marescalco",

21151 (Cesena, Zezena de be"e colonne)

21152 Mozart obit aetat 35,

21153 Christian's hat and gloves so clearly painted

21154 (Herbiet)

21155 the corridor ½ all inch wide,

21156 must be somewhere

21157 "moyens d'existence inconnus."

21158 Anselm "Monologion" scripsit, 1063

21159 "non spatio, sed sapientia"

21160 not in space but in knowing

21161 non pares, not equal in dignity


[Page 747]
21162 rerum naturas.

21163 Do not use their mathematics to think with ...

21164 Lanfranci timuerunt sapientiam,

21165 were alarmed by Lanfranc's horse-sense.

21166 Passed that day drawing a grasshopper

21167 "Loans from Tibet" said old Gallagher,

21168 Patrick, and died in this bughouse?

21169 Sodom on Thames sold out Napoleon


21170 Hou Je [Image] stando nel Paradiso Terrestre [Image]
21171 and the sheep on Rham plains have different names

21172 according to colour,

21173 nouns, not one noun plus an adjective,

21174 "Meas nugas" my Trifles, said Anselm.

21175 "L'adoravano" said the sacristan, Bari

21176 "come Santa Lucia"

21177 So it, a stone cupid, had to be stored in the sacristy.

21178 Barocco, anima: stuff left from the 5 & 10


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