#MIDDLEBURY
After Ch’u Yuan
Ezra Pound
I will get me to the wood
Where the gods walk garlanded in wisteria,
By the silver-blue flood move others with ivory cars.
There come forth many maidens
to gather grapes for the leopards, my friend.
For there are leopards drawing the cars.
I will walk in the glade,
I will come out of the new thicket
and accost the procession of maidens.
About this poem
“After Ch’u Yuan” was published in “Des Imagistes: An Anthology” (Albert and Charles Boni, 1914).
About Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, on Oct. 30, 1885. His collections include “Umbra: Collected Poems” (E. Mathews, 1920) and “Cantos I-XVI” (Three Mountains Press, 1925). He died on Nov. 1, 1972.
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This poem is in the public domain. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
