Lustra [Annotated]
All content has been transcribed exactly 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. <br /><br />Incorporated into this edition is Cathay, poems Pound translated from the Chinese of Rihaku and originally published in 1915.<br /><br />Appended to this Kindle edition is a critical review of Lustra, written by Max Michelson, as published in Poetry Magazine in 1918.<br /><br />For more classic, exceptionally-formatted poetry titles look for Perscribo Publishing in the Kindle Store.<br /><br />CONTENTS:<br /><br />Tenzone<br />The Condolence<br />The Garret<br />The Garden<br />Ortus<br />Salutation<br />The Spring<br />Albâtre<br />Causa<br />A Pact<br />Surgit Fama<br />Preference<br />Dance Figure<br />April<br />Gentildonna<br />The Rest<br />Les Millwin<br />Further Instructions<br />A Song of the Degrees<br />Ite<br />Dum Capitolium Scandet<br />Tο Kαλòν<br />The Study in Aesthetics<br />The Bellaires<br />Salvationists<br />Arides<br />The Bath Tub<br />Amitiés<br />To Dives<br />Ladies<br />Coda<br />Ancora<br />"Dompna pois de me no'us cal"<br />The Coming of War: Actaeon<br />After Ch'u Yuan<br />Liu Ch'e<br />Fan-piece, for her Imperial Lord<br />Ts'ai Chi'h<br />In a Station of the Metro<br />Alba<br />Heather<br />The Faun<br />Pervigilium<br />The Encounter<br />Tempora<br />Black Slippers: Bellotti<br />Society<br />Image from D'Orleans<br />Papyrus<br />"Ione, Dead the Long Year"<br />Shop Girl<br />To Formianus' Young Lady Friend<br />Tame Cat<br />L'Art, 1910<br />Simulacra<br />Women before a Shop<br />Epilogue<br />The Social Order<br />The Tea Shop<br />Epitaphs<br />Our Contemporaries<br />Ancient Wisdom, Rather Cosmic<br />The Three Poets<br />The Gipsy<br />The Game of Chess<br />Provincia Deserta<br />Near Perigord<br />Villanelle: The Psychological Hour<br />Dans un Omnibus de Londres<br />To a Friend Writing on Cabaret Dancers<br />Homage to Quintus Septimius Florentis Christianus<br />Fish and the Shadow<br /><br />CATHAY:<br /><br />Song of the Bowmen of Shu<br />The Beautiful Toilet<br />The River Song<br />The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter<br />The Jewel Stairs' Grievance<br />Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin<br />Lament of the Frontier Guard<br />Exile's Letter<br />Four Poems of Departure<br />Separation on the River Kiang<br />Taking Leave of a Friend<br />Leave-taking near Shoku<br />The City of Choan<br />South Folk in Cold Country<br />Sennin Poem by Kakuhaku<br />A Ballad of the Mulberry Road<br />Old Idea of Choan by Rosoriu<br />To-Em-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud"