Lustra of Ezra PoundFront matterReading editionChapter navigation88 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterL U S T R ATenzoneThe CondolenceThe GarretThe GardenOrtusSalutationThe SpringAlbâtreCausaA PactSurgit FamaPreferenceDance Figure For the Marriage in Cana of GalileeAprilGentildonnaThe RestLes MillwinFurther InstructionsA Song of the DegreesIteDum Capitolium ScandetTo καλὀνThe Study in AestheticsThe BellairesSalvationistsAridesThe Bath TubAmitiésTo DivesLadiesCodaAncoraA TRANSLATION From the Provençal of En Bertrans de Born. “Dompna pois de me no’us cal”The Coming of War: ActaeonAfter Ch’u YuanLiu Ch’eFan-piece, for her Imperial LordTs’ai Chi’hIn a Station of the MetroAlbaHeatherThe FaunPervigiliumThe EncounterTemporaBlack Slippers: BellottiSocietyImage from D’OrleansPapyrus“Ione, Dead the Long Year”Shop GirlTo Formianus’ Young Lady Friend After Valerius CatullusTame CatL’Art, 1910SimulacraWomen Before a ShopEpilogueThe Social OrderThe Tea ShopEpitaphsOur ContemporariesAncient Wisdom, Rather CosmicThe Three PoetsThe GipsyThe Game of Chess Dogmatic Statement Concerning the Game of Chess: Theme for a Series of PicturesProvincia DesertaCATHAYSong of the Bowmen of ShuThe Beautiful ToiletThe River SongThe River-Merchant’s Wife: a LetterThe Jewel Stairs’ GrievancePoem by the Bridge at Ten-ShinLament of the Frontier GuardExile’s LetterFrom Rihaku FOUR POEMS OF DEPARTURESennin Poem by KakuhakuA Ballad of the Mulberry RoadOld Idea of Choan by RosoriuTo-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”Near PerigordVillanelle: the Psychological HourDans un Omnibus de LondresTo a Friend Writing on Cabaret DancersHomage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus (Ex libris Graecae)Fish and the ShadowBeginning of this editionNext chapter →L U S T R AAll chapters and sections (88)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsL U S T R ATenzoneThe CondolenceThe GarretThe GardenOrtusSalutationThe SpringAlbâtreCausaA PactSurgit FamaPreferenceDance Figure For the Marriage in Cana of GalileeAprilGentildonnaThe RestLes MillwinFurther InstructionsA Song of the DegreesIteDum Capitolium ScandetTo καλὀνThe Study in AestheticsThe BellairesSalvationistsAridesThe Bath TubAmitiésTo DivesLadiesCodaAncoraA TRANSLATION From the Provençal of En Bertrans de Born. “Dompna pois de me no’us cal”The Coming of War: ActaeonAfter Ch’u YuanLiu Ch’eFan-piece, for her Imperial LordTs’ai Chi’hIn a Station of the MetroAlbaHeatherThe FaunPervigiliumThe EncounterTemporaBlack Slippers: BellottiSocietyImage from D’OrleansPapyrus“Ione, Dead the Long Year”Shop GirlTo Formianus’ Young Lady Friend After Valerius CatullusTame CatL’Art, 1910SimulacraWomen Before a ShopEpilogueThe Social OrderThe Tea ShopEpitaphsOur ContemporariesAncient Wisdom, Rather CosmicThe Three PoetsThe GipsyThe Game of Chess Dogmatic Statement Concerning the Game of Chess: Theme for a Series of PicturesProvincia DesertaCATHAYSong of the Bowmen of ShuThe Beautiful ToiletThe River SongThe River-Merchant’s Wife: a LetterThe Jewel Stairs’ GrievancePoem by the Bridge at Ten-ShinLament of the Frontier GuardExile’s LetterFrom Rihaku FOUR POEMS OF DEPARTURESennin Poem by KakuhakuA Ballad of the Mulberry RoadOld Idea of Choan by RosoriuTo-Em-Mei’s “The Unmoving Cloud”Near PerigordVillanelle: the Psychological HourDans un Omnibus de LondresTo a Friend Writing on Cabaret DancersHomage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus (Ex libris Graecae)Fish and the ShadowEZRA POUND.◇[Image unavailable: From photo portrait by Alvin Langdon Coburn. EZRA POUND.]L U S T R A →