 ... patron of thieves, Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop, With the little bright boxes piled up neatly upon the shelves And the loose fragrant cavendish and the shag, And the bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases,...  Poetry - Pagina 277a cura di - 1916Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Ezra Pound - 1917 - 212 pagine
...bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip...writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. EPITAPHS Fu I Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill, Alas, he died of alcohol. Li Po And Li Po also... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer, Marianne Moore - 1919 - 532 pagine
...deeper. Now at last, however, we know what the unfortunate man meant in his Lake Isle, when he cried: 0 God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves. Lend me...tobacco-shop, or install me in any profession Save this damned profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. It was the cry of self-knowledge.... | |
 | Ezra Pound - 1926 - 298 pagine
...bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip...writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. F EPITAPHS Ful UI loved the high cloud and the hill, Alas, he died of alcohol. Li Po And Li Po also... | |
 | Ezra Pound - 1926 - 266 pagine
...bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip...writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. F EPITAPHS Ful UI loved the high cloud and the hill, Alas, he died of alcohol. LI PQ / And Li Po also... | |
 | Ezra Pound - 1957 - 194 pagine
...bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip...writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. EPITAPHS Ful Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill, Alas, he died of alcohol. L1 Po And Li Po also... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagine
...fragrant cavendish and the shag. And the bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, (1. 5—8) 49 at we must labour to be beautiful." (1. 18-20) Among...Children 7 — the children's eyes In momentary won (1. 14-16) FaBoCo; FaBoPa; OxBSP; PoA Lovers of beauty, starved. Thwarted with systems. Helpless against... | |
 | Daniel Albright - 1997 - 324 pagine
...abandoning a literary career in favor of shopkeeping had bemused Pound ever since "The Lake Isle" (1916): O Mercury, patron of thieves, Lend me a little tobacco-shop...writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. . 117) The provisional personae of the Cantos, living their brief half-lives before absorption into... | |
 | Simon Dentith - 2000 - 228 pagine
...bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip...writing where one needs one's brains all the time. The immediare polemical target here is not really the idiosyncracies of Yeats's style; indeed, it is... | |
 | Shira Wolosky Weiss - 2001 - 248 pagine
...bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the whores dropping in for a word or two in passing, For a flip...writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. This poem stages a scene of Modernism in many ways. It insists on an everyday, urban setting as the... | |
 | Nikki Moustaki - 2001 - 376 pagine
...glass cases, And a pair of scales not too greasy, And the votailles dropping in for a word or two in a passing, For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a...writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. — Ezra Pound Part of the irony in this poem is that Pound uses an invocation to help him do something... | |
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