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Ezra Pound

American poet Ezra Loomis Pound was also an important critic and translator. Born in Hailey, Idaho, he graduated from Hamilton College in 1905, and took an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in

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by Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

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VII

Me happy, night, night full of brightness;
Oh couch made happy by my long delectations;
How many words talked out with abundant candles;
Struggles when the lights were taken away;
Now with bared breasts she wrestled against me,
Tunic spread in delay;
And she then opening my eyelids fallen in sleep,
Her lips upon them; and it was her mouth saying:

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