Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (part I) Poem Rhyme Scheme

Recent Interactions*

This poem was read 5 times,

This poem was added to the favorite list by 0 members,

This poem was voted by 0 members.

(* Interactions only in the last 7 days)

New Poems

Wonderful Women
by Umaru Kanneh Boima
Freedom To Scratch In Peace
by Olute Aete
Happy New Year
by Felix Menda
Human Beings
by Dana Graslie
Lust
by Wisdom Greatness
An Isolated Tree's Song
by Sayeed Abubakar
A Strange Boy
by Sayeed Abubakar
O Soil
by Sayeed Abubakar
No War, No War-monger
by Sayeed Abubakar
Night's Town
by Sayeed Abubakar

Popular Poets

1. Emily Dickinson(2414 poems)
2. Madison Julius Cawein(1231 poems)
3. Ella Wheeler Wilcox(1136 poems)
4. William Wordsworth(1016 poems)
5. Robert Burns(986 poems)
6. Edgar Albert Guest(945 poems)
7. Thomas Moore(849 poems)
8. Robert Service(831 poems)

Ezra Pound

Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (part I) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Write your comment about Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (part I) poem by Ezra Pound

Recent Interactions*

New Poems

Popular Poets

Vocat aestus in umbram	A
Nemesianus Es IV	B
	-
E P Ode pour l' lection de son s pulchre	C
	-
For three years out of key with his time	A
He strove to resuscitate the dead art	D
Of poetry to maintain the sublime	A
In the old sense Wrong from the start	D
	-
No hardly but seeing he had been born	E
In a half savage country out of date	F
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn	E
Capaneus trout for factitious bait	F
	-
Idmen gar toi panth os eni Troie	C
Caught in the unstopped ear	C
Giving the rocks small lee way	G
The chopped seas held him therefore that year	C
	-
His true Penelope was Flaubert	H
He fished by obstinate isles	I
Observed the elegance of Circe's hair	C
Rather than the mottoes on sun dials	J
	-
Unaffected by the march of events	K
He passed from men's memory in l'an trentiesme	A
De son eage the case presents	L
No adjunct to the Muses' diadem	A
	-
II	M
	-
The age demanded an image	N
Of its accelerated grimace	O
Something for the modern stage	P
Not at any rate an Attic grace	Q
	-
Not not certainly the obscure reveries	R
Of the inward gaze	S
Better mendacities	S
Than the classics in paraphrase	S
	-
The age demanded chiefly a mould in plaster	C
Made with no loss of time	A
A prose kinema not not assuredly alabaster	C
Or the sculpture of rhyme	A
	-
III	M
	-
The tea rose tea gown etc	T
Supplants the mousseline of Cos	S
The pianola replaces	S
Sappho's barbitos	S
	-
Christ follows Dionysus	S
Phallic and ambrosial	U
Made way for macerations	S
Caliban casts out Ariel	U
	-
All things are a flowing	V
Sage Heracleitus says	S
But a tawdry cheapness	S
Shall reign throughout our days	S
	-
Even the Christian beauty	W
Defects after Samothrace	S
We see to kalon	E
Decreed in the market place	S
	-
Faun's flesh is not to us	S
Nor the saint's vision	E
We have the press for wafer	C
Franchise for circumcision	E
	-
All men in law are equals	S
Free of Peisistratus	S
We choose a knave or an eunuch	X
To rule over us	S
	-
A bright Apollo	Y
	-
tin andra tin eroa tina theon	E
What god man or hero	Y
Shall I place a tin wreath upon	E
	-
IV	B
	-
These fought in any case	S
and some believing pro domo in any case	S
	-
Some quick to arm	A
some for adventure	C
some from fear of weakness	S
some from fear of censure	C
some for love of slaughter in imagination	E
learning later	C
	-
some in fear learning love of slaughter	C
Died some pro patria non dulce non et decor	C
	-
walked eye deep in hell	Z
believing in old men's lies then unbelieving	V
came home home to a lie	A2
home to many deceits	S
home to old lies and new infamy	W
	-
usury age old and age thick	B2
and liars in public places	S
	-
Daring as never before wastage as never before	C
Young blood and high blood	C2
Fair cheeks and fine bodies	S
	-
fortitude as never before	C
	-
frankness as never before	C
disillusions as never told in the old days	S
hysterias trench confessions	S
laughter out of dead bellies	S
	-
	-
V	W
	-
There died a myriad	C2
And of the best among them	A
For an old bitch gone in the teeth	D2
For a botched civilization	E
	-
Charm smiling at the good mouth	E2
Quick eyes gone under earth's lid	F2
	-
For two gross of broken statues	S
For a few thousand battered books	S
	-
Yeux Glauques	S
	-
Gladstone was still respected	F2
When John Ruskin produced	G2
Kings Treasuries Swinburne	E
And Rossetti still abused	H2
	-
F tid Buchanan lifted up his voice	S
When that faun's head of hers	S
Became a pastime for	C
Painters and adulterers	S
	-
The Burne Jones cartons	S
Have preserved her eyes	S
Still at the Tate they teach	I2
Cophetua to rhapsodize	S
	-
Thin like brook water	C
With a vacant gaze	S
The English Rubaiyat was still born	E
In those days	S
	-
The thin clear gaze the same	A
Still darts out faun like from the half ruin'd face	S
Questing and passive	B
Ah poor Jenny's case	S
	-
Bewildered that a world	J2
Shows no surprise	S
At her last maquero's	S
Adulteries	S
	-
Siena Mi Fe' Disfecemi Maremma	A
	-
Among the pickled f tuses and bottled bones	S
Engaged in perfecting the catalogue	K2
I found the last scion of the	T
Senatorial families of Strasbourg Monsieur Verog	K2
	-
For two hours he talked of Gallifet	J2
Of Dowson of the Rhymers' Club	L2
Told me how Johnson Lionel died	J2
By falling from a high stool in a pub	L2
	-
But showed no trace of alcohol	M2
At the autopsy privately performed	J2
Tissue preserved the pure mind	J2
Arose toward Newman as the whiskey warmed	J2
	-
Dowson found harlots cheaper than hotels	S
Headlam for uplift Image impartially imbued	J2
With raptures for Bacchus Terpsichore and the Church	N2
So spoke the author of The Dorian Mood	J2
	-
M Verog out of step with the decade	J2
Detached from his contemporaries	S
Neglected by the young	K2
Because of these reveries	S
	-
Brennbaum	A
	-
The sky like limpid eyes	S
The circular infant's face	S
The stiffness from spats to collar	C
Never relaxing into grace	S
	-
The heavy memories of Horeb Sinai and the forty years	S
Showed only when the daylight fell	Z
Level across the face	S
Of Brennbaum The Impeccable	U
	-
Mr Nixon	E
	-
In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht	J2
Mr Nixon advised me kindly to advance with fewer	C
Dangers of delay Consider	C
Carefully the reviewer	C
	-
I was as poor as you are	C
When I began I got of course	S
Advance on royalties fifty at first said Mr Nixon	E
Follow me and take a column	E
Even if you have to work free	W
	-
Butter reviewers From fifty to three hundred	J2
I rose in eighteen months	S
The hardest nut I had to crack	K2
Was Dr Dundas	S
	-
I never mentioned a man but with the view	B
Of selling my own works	S
The tip's a good one as for literature	C
It gives no man a sinecure	C
	-
And no one knows at sight a masterpiece	S
And give up verse my boy	O2
There's nothing in it	J2
	-
	-
	-
Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me	W
Don't kick against the pricks	S
Accept opinion The Nineties tried your game	A
And died there's nothing in it	J2
	-
X	S
	-
Beneath the sagging roof	B
The stylist has taken shelter	C
Unpaid uncelebrated	J2
At last from the world's welter	C
	-
Nature receives him	A
With a placid and uneducated mistress	S
He exercises his talents	S
And the soil meets his distress	S
	-
The haven from sophistications and contentions	S
Leaks through its thatch	P2
He offers succulent cooking	K2
The door has a creaking latch	P2
	-
XI	W
	-
Conservatrix of Mil sien	E
Habits of mind and feeling	K2
Possibly But in Ealing	K2
With the most bank clerkly of Englishmen	E
	-
No Mil sian is an exaggeration	E
No instinct has survived in her	C
Older than those her grandmother	C
Told her would fit her station	E
	-
XII	W
	-
Daphne with her thighs in bark	K2
Stretches toward me her leafy hands	W
Subjectively In the stuffed satin drawing room	A
I await The Lady Valentine's commands	W
	-
Knowing my coat has never been	E
Of precisely the fashion	E
To stimulate in her	C
A durable passion	E
	-
Doubtful somewhat of the value	B
Of well gowned approbation	E
Of literary effort	J2
But never of The Lady Valentine's vocation	E
	-
Poetry her border of ideas	W
The edge uncertain but a means of blending	K2
With other strata	J2
Where the lower and higher have ending	K2
	-
A hook to catch the Lady Jane's attention	E
A modulation toward the theatre	C
Also in the case of revolution	E
A possible friend and comforter	C
	-
	-
	-
Conduct on the other hand the soul	Q2
Which the highest cultures have nourished	J2
To Fleet St where	C
Dr Johnson flourished	J2
	-
Beside this thoroughfare	C
The sale of half hose has	W
Long since superseded the cultivation	E
Of Pierian roses	W