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.
View profile & all 45 Poems / StoriesAs a bathtub lined with white porcelain,When the hot water gives out or goes tepid,
I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
As cool as the pale wet leavesof lily-of-the-valley
Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.
The petals fall in the fountain,the orange-coloured rose-leaves,
