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Francesca

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



You came in out of the night
And there were flowers in your hand,
Now you will come out of a confusion of people,
Out of a turmoil of speech about you.

I who have seen you amid the primal things
Was angry when they spoke your name
IN ordinary places.
I would that the cool waves might flow over my mind,
And that the world should dry as a dead leaf,
Or as a dandelion see-pod and be swept away,
So that I might find you again,
Alone.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 31, 2023

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Scheme XXXX XXXXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 430
Words 91
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 8

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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