PROVENÇA

POEMS SELECTED FROM PERSONAE, EXULTATIONS, AND CANZONIERE OF

EZRA POUND

BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD AND COMPANY

Publishers

Copyright, 1910, By Ezra Pound

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PERSONAE

LA FRAISNE 5

CINO 7

NA AUDIART 9

VILLONAUD FOR THIS YULE 11

A VILLONAUD, BALLAD OF THE GIBBET 12

MESMERISM 14

FAMAM LIBROSQUE CANO 15

IN TEMPORE SENECTUTIS 17

CAMARADERIE 18

FOR E. McC. 19

BALLAD FOR GLOOM 20

AT THE HEART O’ ME 21

THE TREE 22

AN IDYL FOR GLAUCUS 22

MARVOIL 26

IN THE OLD AGE OF THE SOUL 28

REVOLT AGAINST THE CREPUSCULAR

SPIRIT IN MODERN POETRY 28

AND THUS IN NINEVEH 30

THE WHITE STAG 31

PICCADILLY 31

EXULTATIONS

NIGHT LITANY 37

SESTINA: ALTAFORTE 39

BALLAD OF THE GOODLY FERE 41

PORTRAIT 43

THE EYES 43

NILS LYKKE 44

“FAIR HELENA” BY RACKHAM 45

GREEK EPIGRAM 45

HISTRION 46

PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS 46

A SONG OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER 47

SONG 48

PLANH FOR THE YOUNG ENGLISH KING 49

ALBA INNOMINATA 50

LAUDANTES 52

PLANH 56

CANZONIERE

OCTAVE 63

SONNET IN TENZONE 63

SONNET 64

CANZON: THE YEARLY SLAIN 64

CANZON: THE SPEAR 67

CANZON 69

CANZON: OF INCENSE 71

CANZONE: OF ANGELS 73

SONNET: CHI È QUESTA? 75

OF GRACE 76

CANZON: THE VISION 76

TO OUR LADY OF VICARIOUS ATONEM 79

EPILOGUE 80

NOTES 81