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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live Portrait d'Une Femme by Ezra Pound Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left you this or that in fee: Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things, Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price. Great minds have sought you- lacking someone else. You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year. Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit Hours, where something might have floated up. And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay. You are a person of some interest, one comes to you And takes strange gain away: Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion; Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale for two, Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else That might prove useful and yet never proves, That never fits a corner or shows use, Or finds its hour upon the loom of days: The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work; Idols and ambergris and rare inlays, These are your riches, your great store; and yet For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things, Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff: In the slow float of differing light and deep, No! there is nothing! In the whole and all, Nothing that's quite your own. Yet this is you. American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Ezra Pound Alba Ancient Music An Immorality A Pact Canto 1 Canto 13 Canto 49 Cino EP Ode Pour Lelection De Son Sepulchre In A Station Of The Metro Meditatio Portrait dUne Femme Salutation Sestina Altaforte Song The Encounter The Garden The Garret The Needle The Return The River-Merchants Wife A Letter

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Eamon Grennan	Eavan Boland	Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Lee Masters	Edith Wharton	Edmund Spenser
Edna St. Vincent Millay	Edward Fitzgerald	Edward Hirsch
Edward Lear	Edward Taylor	Edwin Brock
Edwin Morgan	EE Cummings	Eileen Myles
Elizabeth Bishop	Elizabeth Browning	Elizabeth Jennings
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	Ellen Bryant Voigt	Ellis Parker Butler
Emily Dickinson	Erica Jong	Ernest Dowson
Etheridge Knight	Ezra Pound

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