POEMS 1918-21 _Ezra Pound’s work is now contained in the following volumes:_ _Poetry_: 1908-1910 Provenca (_U. S. A._) or 1908-1912 Umbra (_English_) 1910-1917 Lustra (American Edition) 1918-1921 Poems: Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos _Prose_: 1910 The Spirit of Romance 1916 Gaudier Brzeska, a Memoir 1918 Pavannes and Divisions 1920 Instigations _Translations_: 1912 The Sonnets and Ballate of Guido Cavalcanti 1916 From the Mss. of Ernest Fenollosa: Noh 1921 Physique de l’Amour by Remy de Gourmont POEMS 1918-21 INCLUDING THREE PORTRAITS AND FOUR CANTOS BY EZRA POUND BONI AND LIVERIGHT PUBLISHERS NEW YORK POEMS 1918-1921 COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY BONI AND LIVERIGHT, INC. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA _Certain poems in this volume have appeared in “The Dial,” “The New Age,” “The Little Review,” “Poetry,” and private issues of Egoist and Ovid Press._ CONTENTS _PORTRAITS_ 1. HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS [i-xii] 2. LANGUE D’OC [i-v] _Moeurs Contemporaines_ [i-viii] 3. HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY Part I. _Ode pour l’élection de son sépulchre_ II. III. IV. V. _Yeux Glauques_ “_Siena mi fe, disfecemi Maremma_” _Brennbaum_ _Mr. Nixon_ X. XI. XII. ENVOI 1919 Part II. 1920 (Mauberley) PAGE I. II. “_The age demanded_” IV. _Medallion_ _CANTOS_ THE FOURTH CANTO THE FIFTH CANTO THE SIXTH CANTO THE SEVENTH CANTO HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS I 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?