Believe it or not, there are some items you cannot find on the Internet. I am reading "Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound" and I came across a wonderful poem titled "Anima Sola". Surprisingly, it is nowhere to be found on the Internet. So I post it here. Enjoy!
Anima Sola
"Then neither is the bright orb of the sun greeted nor yes either the shaggy might of earth or sea, thus then, in the firm vessel of harmony is fixed God, a sphere, round, rejoicing in complete solitude."
Empedokles
Exquisite loneliness
Bound of mine own caprice
I fly on the wings of an unknown chord
That ye hear not,
Can not discern
My music is weird and untamed
Barbarous, wild, extreme,
I fly on the note that ye hear not
On the chord that ye can not dream.
And lo, your out-worn harmonies are behind me
As ashes and mouldy bread,
I die in the tears of the morning
I kiss the wail of the dead.
My joy is the wind of heaven,
My drink is the gall of night,
My love is the light of meteors;
The autumn leaves in flight.
I pendant sit in the vale of fate
I twine the Maenad strands
And lo, the three Eumenides
Take justice at my hands.
For I fly in the gale of an unknown chord.
The blood of light is God's delight
And I am the life blood's ward.
O Loneliness, O Loneliness,
Thou boon of the fires blown
From heaven to hell and back again
Thou cup of the God-man's own!
For I am a weird untamed
That eat of no man's meat
My house is the rain ye wail against
My drink is the wine of sleet.
My music is your disharmony
Intangible, most mad,
For the clang of a thousand cymbals
Where the sphinx smiles o'er the sand,
And viol strings that out-sing kings
Are the least of my command.
Exquisite, alone, untrammeled
I kiss the nameless sign
And the laws of my inmost being
Chant to the nameless shrine.
I flee on the wing of a note ye know not,
My music disowns your law,
Ye can not tread the road I wed
And lo! I refuse your bidding.
I will not bow to the expectation that ye have.
Lo! I am gone as a red flame into the mist,
My chord is unresolved by your counter-harmonies.
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