Interesting poems- attempting to penetrate Ezra Pound soon!
- In the desert, Stephen Crane, ‘In the desert/I saw a creature, naked, bestial…’
- A Wish, Christina Rossetti, ‘Or shadow of a lily stirred/By wind upon the floor’
- The Embankment, T.E. Hulme, ‘The old star-eaten blanket of the sky’
- Follow thy fair sun, Thomas Campion, ‘Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow’
- Early haiku translations in English
- The Frog, Francis Ponge, ‘Let her flee with her nervousness. Her legs are pretty.’
- On the Metro, C.K.Williams, ‘how literally golden young women can look at the end of summer.’
- This Moment, Eavan Bolard, ‘Stars rise./Moths flutter./Apples sweeten the dark.’
- One Girl, Sappho, ‘Like the wild hyacinth flower which on the hills is found,/Which the passing feet of the shepherds for ever tear and wound,/Until the purple blossom is trodden in the ground.’
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