Lustra — Ezra Pound

All text as it appears in the 1916 (Elkin Mathews, Cork Street) edition. Includes active table of contents, correct spacing/breaks, and automatic (poetic) indentation for any size frame or font.

Incorporated into this collection is Cathay, poems Pound translated from the Chinese of Rihaku and originally published in 1915.

Appended to this edition is a critical review of Lustra, written by Max Michelson, as published in Poetry Magazine in 1918.

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CONTENTS:

Tenzone
The Condolence
The Garret
The Garden
Ortus
Salutation
The Spring
Albâtre
Causa
A Pact
Surgit Fama
Preference
Dance Figure
April
Gentildonna
The Rest
Les Millwin
Further Instructions
A Song of the Degrees
Ite
Dum Capitolium Scandet
Tο Kαλòν
The Study in Aesthetics
The Bellaires
Salvationists
Arides
The Bath Tub
Amitiés
To Dives
Ladies
Coda
Ancora
"Dompna pois de me no'us cal"
The Coming of War: Actaeon
After Ch'u Yuan
Liu Ch'e
Fan-piece, for her Imperial Lord
Ts'ai Chi'h
In a Station of the Metro
Alba
Heather
The Faun
Pervigilium
The Encounter
Tempora
Black Slippers: Bellotti
Society
Image from D'Orleans
Papyrus
"Ione, Dead the Long Year"
Shop Girl
To Formianus' Young Lady Friend
Tame Cat
L'Art, 1910
Simulacra
Women before a Shop
Epilogue
The Social Order
The Tea Shop
Epitaphs
Our Contemporaries
Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic
The Three Poets
The Gipsy
The Game of Chess
Provincia Deserta
Near Perigord
Villanelle: The Psychological Hour
Dans un Omnibus de Londres
To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers
Homage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus
Fish and the Shadow

CATHAY:

Song of the Bowmen of Shu
The Beautiful Toilet
The River Song
The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter
The Jewel Stairs' Grievance
Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
Lament of the Frontier Guard
Exile's Letter
Four Poems of Departure
Separation on the River Kiang
Taking Leave of a Friend
Leave-taking near Shoku
The City of Choan
South Folk in Cold Country
Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku
A Ballad of the Mulberry Road
Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu
To-Em-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud"