Francesca
Published in Poem Of The Day
You came in out of the night
And there were flowers in your hands,
Now you will come out of a confusion of people,
Out of a turmoil of speech about you.
I who have seen you amid the primal things
Was angry when they spoke your name
In ordinary places.
I would that the cool waves might flow over my mind,
And that the world should dry as a dead leaf,
Or as a dandelion seed-pod and be swept away,
So that I might find you again,
Alone.
About this poem
"Francesca" was published in Ezra Pound's book "Exultations" (E. Matthews, 1909).
About Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, on Oct. 30, 1885. Pound helped define the modernist aesthetic in poetry and influenced contemporaries such as Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams and T.S. Eliot. Some of his works include "Lustra and Other Poems" (1917) and "Pisan Cantos" (1948). Pound died in Venice, Italy, on Nov. 1, 1972.
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