As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.
Alba
About the poet
Ezra Pound
1885 - 1972/Male/AmericanA poet and critic, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is known for his development of Imagism, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language.
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The Bath Tub
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain,When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
The Tree
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
L’Art
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
The Encounter
All the while they were talking the new moralityHer eyes explored me.
Ts’ai Chi’h
The petals fall in the fountain,the orange-coloured rose-leaves,
