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by Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.




Quotes of the Day

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech

• Henry David Thoreau



Poems of the Day
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    The Hen's Complaint
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Beside an incubator stood The would-be mother of a brood. With drooping wings and nodding head, These are the clucked-out words she said: "O, vile invention of the age,