Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos
Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos
By Ezra POund
29 Jan, 2020
Brief Extract: SHADES of Callimachus, Coan ghosts of Philetas
It is in your grove I would walk,
I who come first from the clear font
Bringing the Grecian orgies into Italy,
and the dance into Italy.
Who hath taught you so subtle a measure,
in w
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Brief Extract: SHADES of Callimachus, Coan ghosts of Philetas
It is in your grove I would walk,
I who come first from the clear font
Bringing the Grecian orgies into Italy,
and the dance into Italy.
Who hath taught you so subtle a measure,
in what hall have you heard it;
What foot beat out your time-bar, what water has mellowed your whistles? Less