Greek (Ezra Pound)

danmowinski — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:40:48 +0000

BE in me as the eternal moods
of the bleak wind, and not
As transient things are—
gaiety of flowers.
Have me in the strong loneliness
of sunless cliffs
And of gray waters.
Let the gods speak softly of us
In days hereafter,
the shadowy flowers of Orcus
Remember thee.

Taken from my copy of Imagist Poetry edited by Peter Jones.

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Greek (Ezra Pound)