Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written Character

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Boni and Liveright, 1920 - 388 pagine
 

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Pagina 32 - Il entend leurs cils noirs battant sous les silences Parfumés ; et leurs doigts électriques et doux Font crépiter parmi ses grises indolences Sous leurs ongles royaux la mort des petits poux. Voilà que monte en lui le vin de la Paresse, Soupir d'harmonica qui pourrait délirer ; L'enfant se sent, selon la lenteur des caresses, Sourdre et mourir sans cesse un désir de pleurer.
Pagina 324 - No wonder, such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms! What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen. Yet hence, oh Heav'n! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race.
Pagina 247 - Every obscene, lewd, or lascivious book, pamphlet, picture, paper, letter, writing, print, or other publication of an indecent character...
Pagina 248 - ... every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for preventing conception or producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use...
Pagina 210 - I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter; They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame, Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil. They come shaking in triumph their long green hair ; They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore: My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?
Pagina 248 - Whoever shall knowingly deposit or cause to be deposited, for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section to be nonmailable matter...
Pagina 209 - I hear an army charging upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees ; Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand, Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers. They cry unto the night their battle-name ; I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter; They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame, Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil. They come...
Pagina 236 - I saw the potamus take wing Ascending from the damp savannas, And quiring angels round him sing The praise of God, in loud hosannas.
Pagina 340 - Elpenor, how art thou come to this dark coast? Cam'st thou afoot, outstripping seamen?" And he in heavy speech: "111 fate and abundant wine. I slept in Circe's ingle. Going down the long ladder unguarded, I fell against the buttress, Shattered the nape-nerve, the soul sought Avernus. But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied, Heap up mine arms, be tomb by sea-bord, and inscribed: A man of no fortune, and with a name to come. And set my oar up, that I swung mid fellows.
Pagina 326 - And as in well-grown woods, on trees, cold spiny grasshoppers Sit chirping, and send voices out, that scarce can pierce our ears For softness...

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