CONTENTS
Tenzone
The Condolence
The Garret
The Garden
Ortus
Salutation
The Spring
Albatre
Causa
A Pact
Surgit Fama
Preference
Dance Figure For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
April
Gentildonna
The Rest
Les Millwin
Further Instructions
A Song of the Degrees I Rest me with Chinese colours, For I
Ite
Dum Capitolium Scandet
To ?????
The Study in Aesthetics
The Bellaires
Salvationists I Come , my songs, let us speak of perfection
Arides
The Bath Tub
AmitiEs
To Dives
Ladies Agathas Four and forty lovers had Agathas in the old
Coda
Ancora
A TRANSLATION From the Provenaeal of En Bertrans de Born. "Dompna pois de me no'us cal"
The Coming of War: Actaeon
After Ch'u Yuan
Liu Ch'e
Fan-piece, for her Imperial Lord
Ts'ai Chi'h
In a Station of the Metro
Alba
Heather
The Faun
Pervigilium
The Encounter
Tempora
Black Slippers: Bellotti
Society
Image from D'Orleans
Papyrus
"Ione, Dead the Long Year"
Shop Girl
To Formianus' Young Lady Friend After Valerius Catullus
Tame Cat
L'Art, 1910
Simulacra
Women Before a Shop
Epilogue
The Social Order I This government official, Whose wife is
The Tea Shop
Epitaphs Fu I
Our Contemporaries
Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic
The Three Poets
The Gipsy
The Game of Chess Dogmatic Statement Concerning the Game of Chess: Theme for a Series of Pictures
Provincia Deserta
CATHAY
Song of the Bowmen of Shu
The Beautiful Toilet
The River Song
The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
Lament of the Frontier Guard
Exile's Letter
From Rihaku FOUR POEMS OF DEPARTURE
Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku
A Ballad of the Mulberry Road
Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu I. The narrow streets cut into the
To-Em-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud"
Near Perigord
Villanelle: the Psychological Hour
Dans un Omnibus de Londres
To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers
Homage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus ( Ex libris
Fish and the Shadow
LUSTRA OF EZRA POUND
L U S T R A
OF
EZRA POUND
Definition—“Lustrum: an offering for the sins of the whole
people, made by the censors at the expiration of their
five years of office.”
Elementary Latin Dictionary of Charlton T. Lewis.
LONDON
ELKIN MATHEWS, CORK STREET
M CM XVI
Certain of these poems have appeared in
Poetry,
Blast,
Poetry
and Drama,
Smart Set, and
Others, to the editors of which
magazines the author wishes to make due acknowledgment.
E. P.
V. L.
Cui dono lepidum novum libellum.
