In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

From Personae by Ezra Pound, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. No part of this poem may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher.

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Ha' we lost the goodliest fere o' all

Canto I by Ezra Pound
And then went down to the ship,

Canto XIV by Ezra Pound
Io venni in luogo d'ogni luce muto

Coda by Ezra Pound
O my songs

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Come my cantilations

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For three years, out of key with his time,

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I have tried to write Paradise

Papyrus by Ezra Pound
Spring . . . . . . .

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Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea

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Damn it all! all this our South stinks peace.

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An image of Lethe

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See, they return; ah, see the tentative

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While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead

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In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound

Poems by This Author

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